Kubernetes is now incredibly popular among companies, getting certified on this technology is a surefire way to advance your career if you work as a DevOps or Cloud Engineer. I have been working with many different versions of Kubernetes, GKE and EKS along the years and still learned so much through this certification.
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Terraform is a leader among infrastructure as code solutions, getting certified can be a good way to learn more about the tool or simply validate your work experience. The certification exam doesn’t cost much and is quite easy if you already have work experience with Terraform. One benefit of this certification is that it will force you to review some commands and concepts that you don’t necessary use in your day-to-day work.
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The GR20 is a long hike that crosses the Mediterranean island of Corsica from the north to the south. It is considered as one of the most difficult GR (“Grande Randonnée”) footpath because of its steep and rocky paths. There are some sections with chains, rock climbing and footbridges.
The whole trail is about 180 km long with about 12,000m of elevation gain and can be extended with some variant routes and beautiful summits.
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I recently acquired a new external multi-TB SSD and these types of volumes are formatted in exFAT. exFAT is a file system introduced by Microsoft in 2006 and optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards.
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If you are a Cloud Architect today or if you wish to become one, you will have to master one very particular exercice, the cloud architecture whiteboarding.
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I asked many people along the way why they decided to travel Latin America and for many like me it was for the adventure and escaping the daily routine! I planned this trip for months to finally quit my job and leave with nothing else but one backpack.
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Every single backpacker in Patagonia recommended me the W trek in Torres del Paine National Park. Located right into Chile’s Patagonia region, it is known for its beautiful mountains, bright blue icebergs that cleave from glaciers. Its most iconic site is the 3 granite towers from which the park takes its name.
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Climbing Acatenango was the highlight of my trip to Guatemala. Acatenango is a stratovolcano (volcano built up by many layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash) close to the city of Antigua. Acatenango is joined with Volcán de Fuego and collectively the volcano complex is known as La Horqueta.
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Having worked in North America for many years prior to joining a Cloud consulting company in France helped me see how far behind we were in terms of cloud adoption in France. But during these 3 years I really had the opportunity to see AWS, GCP and Azure convincing all the large French companies and the cloud becoming more mature and an acceptable and safe option.
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I read so much about Iceland and it was exactly as described: beautiful and shocking landscapes. We chose to travel during the month of May which is shoulder season. It is a great month to visit, just before the tourist season begins.
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