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What is Blockchain and Why do we need it?

January 15, 2023 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Blockchain, Intro to Blockchain, Post Series, Tech Tagged With: blockchain, tech, web3

Create your first Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS

September 13, 2022 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Create an ALB in AWS

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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Filed Under: Cloud, Tech Tagged With: alb, aws, cloud, learnaws, load balancer

Create your first NFT with Smart Contract

August 21, 2022 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Blockchain, Tech Tagged With: blockchain, nft, smart contract

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