Technology posts
I never would have thought that I will be able to experience having the fastest internet in Japan during my stay here. May I present to you, Nuro Hikari! I lived in the Philippines most of my life, and in a developing country such as mine, internet is already a privilege to some. I experienced …
Yesterday, I passed the certification for the Certified Scrum Master (CSM). You may now see me in the Scrum Alliance Directory. One of the reasons why I took the course (certification was secondary), was borne out of frustration from what I’m currently experiencing. But that was overshadowed by my eagerness to learn on what “Agile” …
Last March 20, it was a holiday in Japan, which means I had 3-day weekend. I must admit, that I really missed doing personal side-projects. Work has almost taken most of my time, and during weeknights I just want to spend time with myself or with my fiancee. During weekends, I just go out and …
This week, I had my 4-day training on Architecting on AWS. It wasn’t that easy, not because the training was hard. It wasn’t easy because I had to wake up early, and arrive at the venue at 9am. I’ve been so used to coming to the office at around 1pm. Courses: AWS Technical Essentials (Foundational, 1 …
I have not coded an open-source project lately for the past months so I decided to think of something to learn over the weekend. Since one of the responsibilities listed on the job role that I’d be taking at Rakuten was to “continuously investigate new technology trends and check feasibility to implement in current systems …
Ever since Bitcoin has rocketed to $6,100 (as of this writing), I already wanted to have a bitcoin hardware wallet for my cryptocurrencies. Way back in August when I bought Bitcoin at $500 +/-, it was still small. But now it’s already hard to entrust your entire money to an online wallet such as coins.ph. …
Last October 21 (Saturday), I gave a talk at DevCon Summit CDO. When I heard about the event, I immediately submitted a proposal. I really wanted to talk at my hometown because the IT industry is really on hypergrowth. I was also able to let my company sponsor 200 shirts during the event. My topic …
Last week, we only had 3 working days since Monday was National Heroes Day and Friday was Eidul Adha. I didn’t have any out of town plans as I wanted to just review for my GRE exam. But alas, I decided to instead build a PHP Package for the Have I Been Pwned API. If your …
Last July 25-26, Team OLX participated in the Google Mobile Hackathon 2017. There was no drive and motivation at first for us. But a week before the actual event, we reorganized ourselves. We did pre-work and prior research on how to tackle the problem. Our team was divided into 3 modules: AMP, PWA, and Credentials. …
As part of my Personal Development Plan (PDP) at work, our Ops Engineering gave me a mentorship program. He asked me which particular aspect of being a “DevOps” I wanted to do. I was particularly interested in Infrastructure as Code (IaS). I know some basics of networking and I’ve completed a few Amazon Web Services …