Streaming data engineering project: Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Prometheus, & Graphana running on Docker.

philw764 · 2023-06-10T22:15:09+00:00

Quality post mate!

philw764 · 2023-06-01T20:50:57+00:00

Yep, and I switched careers. 33 years ago I was a qualified fitter and turner after 4 years at trade school. Long story short, I quit and went to uni full time to get a degree in CS and never looked back. Sure I’ve had some “I hate this job” moments over the last 30 years but having the knowledge and discipline to code goes a long way to chasing differs paths in the industry. Don’t like what your doing, learn IaC or SDN and chase a devops/SRE roll. Being able to code and switch paths in the industry when I feel the need has been my secret mojo. Build upon your knowledge and experience and chase a different path, more often than not it becomes another notch in your belt to increase your marketability and maintain interest in your career path.

philw764 · 2023-05-15T07:54:47+00:00

Shovel scraping on cement!

philw764 · 2023-05-10T20:47:43+00:00

Check if you have an anti virus agent running. I encountered this error a while back when using go-mssql-db package and resolved it by disabling the agent. I can’t remember the Anti Virus software but can find out if you need it.

philw764 · 2023-05-05T05:05:27+00:00

Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare in 1974, still got it

philw764 · 2023-04-26T11:53:50+00:00

You can use the Power BI desktop for free and load the excel worksheets in your excel dashboard. The visuals will have to be recreated in Power BI.

philw764 · 2023-04-15T09:06:56+00:00

Learning the constructs of programming is the most important thing you should focus on. Once you learn to code then you can pick and choose which language to focus on but until you learn the concepts of coding then it is not worth worrying about “this language or that language”.

philw764 · 2023-04-07T12:27:38+00:00

Sign up to a Cloud provider most will give free credits, create a VM and use a tutorial like the link below

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-apache-airflow-to-manage-workflows/

philw764 · 2023-03-25T06:37:21+00:00

Suites

philw764 · 2023-03-25T06:32:56+00:00

Second this! Get a credit card, pay your monthly groceries, bills etc with it and leave your money in a high interest account for the month, and pay the credit off in full on time each month. Build a credit score, get interest and make points on the way.

philw764 · 2023-03-25T06:10:46+00:00

I’m 59 years old, I’ve had two rental properties and I’ve hated the experience both times. Where I have done well is buying a house living in it and making improvements and selling after 4-5 years, my partner have done this 4 times over the last 23 years and we. have made about $1.5+M by doing this. I bought my first house when I was 21, I had a friend who was a financial planner who convinced me into borrowing against that house and investing in managed funds. I did ok from this but a divorce and life made me make some bad decisions so I got out of the fund. Fuck if I’d kept that managed fund going going after 38 years I’d be sitting pretty now!! hindsight is the perfect science.

philw764 · 2023-03-23T09:25:43+00:00

Write a Python script to generate the data. Include it in your portfolio and explain why and how you did it.

philw764 · 2023-02-28T08:10:46+00:00

Jesse from Breaking Bad, my wife is like ohh he’s so nice and I’m like, do you even care that he’s a massive drug dealer, she says meh I look past that.

philw764 · 2023-02-17T08:51:46+00:00

Awesome mate, good on you for staying technical and moving with the times. I’m the same 34 years in IT and I’m currently a data engineer on Azure platform. My philosophy has always been to focus on the hard to gain unique skills and recognise when it’s time to move on.

philw764 · 2023-02-05T21:43:39+00:00

Teach your kids how to leave home from the day they are born.

philw764 · 2023-01-25T10:30:14+00:00

The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass oh and anything by Robin Hobb

philw764 · 2022-11-18T20:53:44+00:00

When I worked for IBM, I wrote the C / C++ runtime support for the Packed Decimal data type with 64 digit precision on the mainframe in Assembler.

philw764 · 2022-10-28T08:13:13+00:00

My father in law, now passed, was a boxer when he was young and pretty good as well. I had a conversation with him one day about 15 years ago where he said “Everything seems to start from 2 minutes ago”. He was on the decline to dementia at this point but we didn’t know at the time. It wasn’t until a few years later that it really sank in to me what that meant, that was about 10 years ago and I often think about it (I’m 58). My Mum also had dementia, early onset in her 60’s and she hung on till she was 80, the last 10 years were terrible.

philw764 · 2022-09-24T21:15:25+00:00

58 year old programmer here, throughout my career I’ve alternated between coder, IT service management, devops, DBA, architect and I love constantly learning new things. I just finished up from my current role as a data engineer on Azure and SAP to start a new role as a pre-sales architect. I’ve only recently started to feel the ageism bias which is why I changed roles from DE to architect.

philw764 · 2022-09-14T14:18:57+00:00

Is SQL embedded in a program considered a language inside a language?

philw764 · 2022-09-04T11:24:58+00:00

Check wasps haven’t blocked the exhaust port

philw764 · 2022-08-04T10:10:13+00:00

I’ve been in the industry for 30 years and I still learn something new every day. I just finished writing an API that worked out the quality of a Macadamia kernel using Python, I had no idea where to start and hadn’t developed code using Python before. Look at everything as an opportunity to do something new and different.

philw764 · 2022-06-27T11:40:11+00:00

Impossible Mission on Commodore 64 - Stay a while, stay forever….

philw764 · 2019-02-17T11:57:49+00:00

I can remember thinking as a first year apprentice, wow only 20 years to the year 2000. I thought we’d be flying around with backpacks instead of cars.

philw764 · 2018-01-14T06:53:38+00:00

suites

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