A Blog on Tech, Leadership and Life by Ashwin Chandrasekaran
In this post series on Blockchain and related technologies, I am trying to simplify explanation of concepts that are sometimes made very complex by courses and articles across the web.
Let’s start with the basics. What is Blockchain? What is the problem that it tries to solve and why do we need it?
I will use Simon Sinek’s golden circle model (why-how-what) to explain the fundamentals.
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In this post, you’ll learn the key steps to create your first Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS.
ALB is used to distribute the incoming traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances — thereby providing single entry point to your applications. It works on Layer 7 (application layer) and provide additional functions like routing, health checks etc. You can read more about ALB in the official AWS documentation.
Here are the key steps to create your first ALB.
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In recent times, I spend most of my personal coding time with Smart Contracts. One useful resource on the internet is Road to Web3 course from folks at Alchemy.
You can follow their tutorial here to create your first smart contract and mint an NFT with it.
I am outlining the steps in this post — I suggest you to use this as a guide to using the tutorial from Web3 University.
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There is an innate habit with humans — that manifests itself from early childhood. Learning by watching.
The habit continues well into our adulthood. It also impacts our actions in corporate life.
Off late, I deal with event-driven systems and real-time data at work. It is a completely different paradigm with its own patterns — especially for someone coming from a request/response world.
In this post, I will give you an overview of these systems and value they bring to the table.
This is the lesson life has taught me in recent times.
Most of us are trained to be part of a race, right from early days. And this mindset continues into later part of life.
But, it is absolutely okay to slow down.