Portfolio

Passed the AZ-305 exam - Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

📖 Finished reading "Engineering Management for the Rest of Us", by Sarah Drasner. I'm no manager, but we all manage something, be it ourselves, our relation with our team mates, managers and so on,...

Finished the "How to Manage a Remote Team" course by GitLab @ Coursera

Quick and interesting course on GitLab's TeamOps, with the goal of "making teamwork an objective discipline". More info: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/teamops/

Yay, this time didn’t take forever to finish a book 🎉 (being under 200 pages probably helped 😅). Some interesting ideas on designing architectures that support evolution. Three factors are pointed ...

Wrapped up "Fundamentals of Database Engineering", and it's a really nice course. Got to refresh some stuff I knew, but also some tidbits that flew under the radar. The course is mostly focused on ...

Wrapped up "Fundamentals of Database Engineering", and it's a really nice course. Got to refresh some stuff I knew, but also some tidbits that flew under the radar. The course is mostly focused on ...

Completed the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification.

After the initial course, now finished "Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview". Like its predecessor, pretty cool stuff! This one went into details of how some popular distributed systems a...

This course, "Grokking the System Design Interview", is pretty cool! A lot of interesting ideas on how to build complex systems. I'm now going through its sequel ("Grokking the Advanced System Desi...

Been playing a bit with Go the last couple of days. Ported my "OOPs, I did it again" presentation C# code to Go, to get a feel for things. I'm pretty sure the code is not idiomatic Go, and Go devel...

Created a Buy Me a Coffee profile, just in case someone would like to support the content I've been producing over the last few years 🙂. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/joaofbantunes

One more done, slowly as usual, but done 🙂. “Fundamentals of Software Architecture”, pretty interesting book, going into technical topics, but also into other aspects of the challenges and responsi...

Finally got through "Reactive Design Patterns", after failing a previous attempt, where I got half way through, didn't read for a while and then lost all the context 🤣.

Finally finished reading "Microservices Patterns" (I’m a veeeery slow book reader 😛). A lot of great information on the positives and negatives of microservices, and what we can do to take the best...

Presented the final project (along with José and Alexandre) and completed my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering at ISEL (Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa).

Presented my final project and completed my Master's Degree in Computer Engineering at ISEL (Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa).

Completed the CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Finished taking the very interesting "Advanced Distributed Systems Design" course, by Udi Dahan.

Started the Coding Militia blog.