Cloud Resume Challenge – Summary, Learnings & Next Steps

For the past few weeks I’ve been working to complete the Cloud Resume Challenge. The challenge is intended for people (such as myself) who are looking to move into a more technical role in Cloud specifically, and have technical skills but not the most techie of CVs! The challenge outlines a number of technologies and … Read more

Cloud Resume Challenge, Step 14 & 15, CI/CD

I’m nearly on the home stretch of the Cloud Resume Challenge! In this penultimate step (technically two steps but I’ll discuss them at the same time here), you’re required to set up CI/CD pipelines for your front and back ends, such that when commits are pushed to GitHub, your code is tested and – following … Read more

Cloud Resume Challenge – Visitor Counter Part 3, API Gateway

So, I’ve built a functioning API with Cloud Run and Datastore. Technically speaking, I now have a URL that my frontend JavaScript code could use to query and update the visitor count but there are a few reasons not to do this. It’s better to expose an API via a dedicated platform that centralises authentication, … Read more