Daniel Neri’s Post

If I'm posting something here, it's usually about coding or deployment. 🚀 If you've seen my posts, you've probably seen me talk about some of the projects I'm working on. If you follow me, you might think that software development and devops are all I do. The reality is that I'm not a walking scripting machine. I'm not an AI built to spit out code. I'm just another person trying to navigate this job market like the rest of you. I hope that when I am hired for my first software position that I'm hired because of my human qualities and not in spite of them. It's hard to put your true self out there, but I've been inspired by some of the posts I've seen you guys share and the vulnerability that many of you have shown. So, I'm going to try to share more of who I am as a person as well! I'm going to start by sharing the only thing that I do more than coding, which is cooking. My Fiancé and I cook pretty much every day and many many years ago, before I found my love for coding, I thought that I wanted to be a chef. It's something that brings me a lot of joy and it is the most rewarding hobby I have! By request from Brooke Sweedar here's a picture of the Korean dish we made last night, Bulgogi Deopbap. I hope you guys find the courage to put yourselves out there and I hope that you all find the path that's right for you. Thank you for reading. Stay strong guys!

If you're just getting started on your journey into tech or if you're a part of the Deploy in Public challenge and want to know more about the tech stack we're using, check out Callie's new segment, "Aww, CRUD"! #LearnInPublic #CodingWithCallie

Come talk about the Deploy in Public challenge with me! We can work on any issues you're having, go over any of the topics or technologies you're not understanding, or just talk about Coding with Callie in general! This meetup will happen an hour before Callie's guest speaker, Alex Lau, and will run into that meeting. Hope to see you guys there!

Did you know that you can use AWS to host not only your site or application, but also your database? Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides so many different services from simple web hosting like this to AI services and even quantum computing services! I'm just getting started on all of the things that you can do with it. During this week's Coding with Callie Deploy in Public challenge I explored another of AWS's services and used HashiCorp's Terraform to provision a Postgres database. I then updated my NestJS API with some simple CRUD functionality to communicate with this database. I also created an EC2 instance to act as a bastion host and used SSM forwarding through the AWS CLI which allowed me to work with the database directly through PGAdmin. This is very handy if I want to view the database schema or confirm that my API is interacting with the database correctly. Lastly, I decided that my main Terraform file had become too cluttered and decided to move just about all of my resources into separate modules. This made it much easier for me to determine exactly which resources I was using for which purpose and helped to keep my code clean and focused. It also gave me some good practice on creating Terraform modules. What are some interesting things that you guys have used AWS for? #deployinpublic #learninpublic #codingwithcallie #postgresql #devops #automation

CI/CD pipeline, what is it? Before this week I thought that CI/CD meant that you were utilizing a SCRUM framework to build and deploy a piece of software, but it's more than that and this week I learned how GitHub actions can help you build a CI/CD pipeline. Continuous integration (CI) is a process where developers frequently push and integrate code into the main code base. In contrast to previous methods where code would be rolled out in major launches to the next version. CI can run tests on the code you push automatically and help highlight errors before they are merged. Continuous delivery (CD) automates deployment of the code you push to a staging environment which can then be automatically deployed to production after approval. Another version of CD is continuous deployment. This strategy automatically deploys new code to production after all automated tests pass. This eliminates the manual approval step from continuous delivery. For the Coding with Callie Deploy in Public challenge we focused on the deployment aspect. We created a workflow using GitHub actions to automate the process of building a Docker, Inc image, pushing it to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) ECR, pulling the image on my EC2 instances and then running a container from that image. Check out the video if you want more details on the workflow. #deployinpublic #buildinpublic #codingwithcallie #devops #cicd #automation

Are you trying to land your first job in tech or curious about any of the projects you've seen me post about? Come join the Coding with Callie team and I for a Q&A session tomorrow at 5PM EST. Hope to see you guys there!

I'll be working on this today! If anyone wants help with it or if you're looking to land your first job in tech and are feeling a little lost, join the meetup with me tonight at 7pm https://lnkd.in/gcWyb6H7 Stay until 8pm when Sara Kay, a software engineer in Moody's technical rotation program, will be giving us an introduction to Big Data and everything you need to get started! Can't wait to see you guys there!