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Learning Data Engineering (Part 3) – Data Engineering Undercurrents
Click here for Part 2. What separates an enterprise vs non-enterprise data engineering setup is whether the data engineer has accounted for the 'Data Engineering Undercurrents'.…
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Taking a short break from Data Engineering: Learning Game Development
TLDR Mushroom Text Game (legacy link retired during the Arthur Blanc rebrand) Learned about HD-2D games Started learning about making 2D games in Unreal Engine Made Unreal Engine…
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Learning Data Engineering (Part 2) - Hooking up to a Blockchain API
Click here for Part 1. Let's start with the questions that I had: What data do I feed through the pipeline and what would I want to do with it at the end? I already have some…
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Moving from Github Pages to Cloudflare Pages
So, I decided to change my website host once again. The reason is because I want to make the github repo for my website private, for security and copyright's sake, for when I do…
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What I think NFTs are for...
[Repost: This was first published in another blog on 28 Sep 2023.] I see NFTs as they are more popularly known as not much different from collectible items that have managed to…
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My First NFT
[Repost: This was first published in another blog on 28 Sep 2023.] This was a ride… To get an NFT minted required a lot of steps…: 1. Research a way to exchange Fiat currency for…
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Learning Data Engineering
Something was bugging me… While working on my Coffee Vending Machine Business Analytics project, it really bugged me that it felt contrived and artificial. The reason being, I…
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Solved: CI/CD to AWS EC2 with Github Actions
I've finally gotten CI/CD setup with AWS EC2 for the second time, after doing the same with Hostinger. I followed this tutorial Hosting Your Resume on AWS EC2 with a CI/CD Setup…
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