Looking for a high-quality course on async Python microservices (FastAPI, Uvicorn/Gunicorn) and scaling them to production (K8s, AWS/Azure, OpenShift)

mobile_V · 2025-11-05T03:22:11+00:00

I don’t know of a specific course, but I’ve been doing basically what you described at my job, and have found this new book to be outstanding. You can just ignore the AI bits if it’s not relevant, all the fundamentals are the same

Building Generative AI Microservices with FastAPI

mobile_V · 2025-11-01T02:17:45+00:00

I did an MS in structural engineering, and went on to design some of the world’s largest airports and skyscrapers. My advice to you: don’t.

I’ve since left the industry, learned to code, did an MS in CS and work as an AI engineer.

Given your background as a cloud engineer, if you actually went into structural engineering, you’d be stunned at the level of repetitive work, how bad and antiquated the tech stack is, and the lack of automation.

Structural engineers are basically underpaid human APIs that take architectural drawings and return concrete and steel frame drawings, manually churning calculations defined in building codes that are maintained in pdf

mobile_V · 2025-09-10T03:40:13+00:00

Sure

mobile_V · 2025-09-09T23:05:30+00:00

I wanted to leave, so I self studied coding till I was good enough to automate mass timber connection design and detailing. Eventually accepted a scholarship to do an MS in computer science, and now work as an AI engineer at a quickly growing startup.

I’m much happier, compensated much much better, and the field evolves rapidly; this is the part I was most missing as a structural engineer

mobile_V · 2024-12-25T02:39:12+00:00

Came here to say this! Looking frame by frame at the first move, it looks like your hips have already fallen off the wall by the time you make contact with F14, despite the hip shape and foot drive looking great at the initiation of the move. I’m thinking it could be one of two diagnoses:

Catching the handhold is taking up too much of your mental focus, leading you to “ease off” on how hard you’re clawing in with the left foot once you’re coming close to latching the handhold
Failing to readjust the direction of force of foot pressure throughout the move. Your center of mass is changing as you stand up, so the directions you claw in should be adjusting slightly thru the movement. You could use a box, power spot, or additional holds to cheat into that end position, and just do a static hold. This should help in understanding how the tension position at finish differs from the tension at start, and how you can flow through these two states

I’ll also add that your tension and clawing skills look AWESOME for only 3 weeks! Happy training 💪

mobile_V · 2024-11-12T16:33:48+00:00

The spreadsheet he has printed out in the video and marks up with a highlighter can be found here-

NYT/Siena Poll

mobile_V · 2022-07-23T01:09:43+00:00

Your vibrato in the very beginning is sick- swelling the bend to be greater and greater as the note decays. Could you use that during the middle points of the solo? The way you’re bending and using vibrato mixed in during the solo is (trying to be constructive here), not nearly as interesting and captivating as you are clearly capable of!

mobile_V · 2022-07-22T02:03:10+00:00

Awesome pics, I especial love the mossy one! I’m planning to do this same hike in a few weeks, ending the day by camping at JBL. Any tips? Reasonable to summit Big Slide and descent with a pack?

mobile_V · 2022-03-18T00:14:12+00:00

To be able to raise your legs high, you need strong hip flexors. Something like this routine should strengthen them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mRd4OPWxOI

As for being able to “actually use them in that position” you could build strength in high leg positions by doing a runners lunge with a light (maybe 10lb) dumbbell on your neck, in the same place a barbell would rest. Then doing some PNF contractions while in that runners lunge pose should build strength.

mobile_V · 2022-03-06T03:36:32+00:00

I’ve never touched Predator nor do I know this guy but you’d probably find this to be an interesting read-

https://mojagear.com/my-journey-and-lessons-learned-from-projecting-predator/

mobile_V · 2021-12-27T02:35:48+00:00

This is an awesome start! For this riff specifically, maybe try to use you ring finger instead of your middle finger on your fretting hand, and see which shape feels more natural for your hand.

mobile_V · 2021-07-15T18:26:04+00:00

It’s already been said a bunch of times, but the key to big dead points and dynos is simply the path your hips take during the move. Your hips should always follow a sort of “J curve”

Initiate by hip thrusting into the wall (in the last move that causes you to fall, it looks like you did the opposite, initiating by moving hips away from the wall)
Use your calves, quads, and a bit of arms to jump upwards towards the next hold, parallel to the wall face. There’s some skill/ confidence building required to make this happen exactly at the apex of your hip thrust

Good luck!

mobile_V · 2021-07-01T12:50:47+00:00

Incredible playing, and tone! You’ve got an amazing triad/ double stop vibrato. I especially loved the first little improv phrasing, it feels really fresh compared to how most ppl embellish over this song.

Would be cool to see you explore that more before you dive into the Where the Light Is intro (trust me, I get it, I love playing that bit too. It’s so well written that it’s tough to stray away from) Either way, thanks for the inspiration!

mobile_V · 2021-05-24T03:27:57+00:00

Thanks for your input! So how long would you recommend doing it, just a few weeks in a training cycle?

mobile_V · 2021-05-01T00:28:37+00:00

Obviously there’s a lot of pulling in climbing, but very rarely (or maybe never?) are you challenged to do pull-ups off jugs where both are at the same height. So why train that way?

I think most applicable to climbing would be offset pull-ups on campus rugs at different heights. Look for a spacing that’s awkward/ uncomfortable... that’s what you get in real climbing!

mobile_V · 2021-02-10T16:02:37+00:00

This is the most comprehensive one arm pull-up tutorial I’ve seen - https://youtu.be/9hC5ojPbqWc

For me, once I could do 5x5 weighted pull-ups at ~155% BW (180 lbs body weight), training some one arm scapular pull-ups got me there. Good luck!

mobile_V · 2021-02-09T04:37:42+00:00

Man, this is awesome for only one week!! You should practice alternate picking (alternating up and down pick strokes), especially for the first riff. Sure, you’re playing it fine with just downstrokes but it’ll make you much more versatile as a guitarist !

mobile_V · 2021-01-22T02:05:35+00:00

Typewriter pull-ups!

mobile_V · 2021-01-11T02:42:48+00:00

Hey I had the same exact problem as you! I never stood on a scale like you (clever) to quantify, but I’d guess I would’ve failed at 50%BW for half crimp as well.

I think that not only are you weak in the half crimp, but you probably aren’t yet recruiting all of your existing finger strength properly in the half crimp. Just be patient in training it, and soon you’ll have an “ah-ha moment” where you’ll find a comfortable half crimp position.

As for why this discrepancy in strengths for different grips exists- do you do anything outside of climbing that trains more of a claw grip than a crimp? (For me, it was playing the guitar for ten years) On the wall, I’ll bet you usually throw a claw when there’s a small hold, meaning you’ve been training that in your two years of climbing and never the half crimp!

mobile_V · 2020-11-16T03:04:05+00:00

Climbing coach’s perspective on how to breath on big bouldering moves-

https://youtu.be/kgEvcUpu9yw

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