What was your win this week?

• I did a live presentation on my side project.
• Completed a writing cohort.

I started to learn C# to control more projects in the current company👨‍💻

I completed 6 of the 30 days css extreme challenge and i worked on my korean a bit more. Its not a lot of win to say but i m still proud that i m continuing my projects and developing more of skills.

• 2 cloud computing job interviews
• new YouTube podcast interview that just dropped on Nobody Wants to Work Tho podcast

Had a couple of wins this week. But the most important one is the DEV Anniversary.

Happy DEV Anniversary!

Juan F Gonzalez ・ Jun 2 ・ 1 min read

#wins #webdev #writing

• greenlight for setting up an API stewardship group at the office
• got creative framework for my side-hustle app nailed down -- logo, colors, and typography
• spun up new Azure instance and got CosmoDB running
• read the FastAPI documentation
• quit drinking Red Bull

I started a new project – developer utilities.

I even have a few people using it so very happy with the progress!

Working on making the design prettier and will share it with more people next week.

found some naive usages of dynamodb on a production app that were causing an incredible amount of Read Capacity Units and by making a few changes (described in this post brought rcu down from 50K to about 500. 🚀💪🤓

I got my Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics! Also, I moved out of a role with grace, prepped for the new one, and made significant progress towards course and book deals on major platforms.

Finally got some shopify code working with Spring Boot. Still trying to get the damn app embed block working. Ugh.

Spoke at a meetup and two conferences (May/June are just loaded with all of these).

Made a comment on Reddit and supported it with a link to a video where I go into more details. I got back a detailed response explaining why I misunderstood the video. Apparently the guy in the video (me) was talking about something else...