Running a marathon is a monumental undertaking. Even though I had been preparing for 1.8 years, it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I truly grasped the significance of this feat. The turning point came when I made the decision to run for a charity organization in Brazil, specifically Casa da Crianca Paralítica de Campinas (https://www.ccp.org.br/web/). This organization provides vital medical, dental, and pedagogical support to children with physical and mental disabilities in Campinas, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. Moreover, during my preparations, I delved into the origin of the…
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Exam Preparation – Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer
First of all, check out my GitHub to keep up-to-date about my programming https://github.com/brunorsreis and find some projects, scripts, or use cases about my studies. This exam is one of those that I most enjoy taking. The approach here was setting up some weeks with my twin brother where we were located on two different continents, making it work to have a meeting and study together with each other, real teamwork. I am grateful to have a brother like my twin. On top of that, I have been working on…
Exam Preparation – Google Cloud Certified – Professional Data Engineer
Google Professional Data Engineer is one of the most exciting and interesting exams I was aiming to pass. Over my career, I have worked mainly with database management until I realized something had happened – The RDBMS databases were no longer the inevitable choice for data management. As a Data Engineer, one is expected to work still with databases and streaming technologies, microservices, third-party APIs, data pipelines, big data technologies, etc. And back then, I had no idea what was happening. Therefore, what does one do when do not know…
Exam Preparation – Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Database Engineer
I have aimed to take a Google certification since starting my career. However, I only had the opportunity to work with Google’s products in the last 3 years, when I began working with GCP Cloud. Therefore, I started my preparation in the segment that is my domain: databases. And, mainly because I wanted to go deeper into a product that as Athena for AWS and Oracle as RDBMS, it became one of my favorite products to work with, which is Google’s fully managed, serverless data warehouse named BigQuery. To my…