i360 Dev 2022

At the end of August 2022 I was able to attend https://360idev.com/

 

Sunday August 28th

I360 Dev pre conference workshops

 

Entry and greeting

Swag that I was given

Design System vs Style Guide

Never constrain width or height of any view that contains text

  • Device size
  • Device orientation
  • Localization
  • Dynamic type

Xcode 13.4.1

Tutorial project

https://github.com/mpospese/DSTutorial

 

Optional:

  • Figma.app (in case you don’t like the website)
  • https://www.figma.com/downloads/
  • Base Design System (Uber)
  • https://www.figma.com/file/eit8RZXY7SDkYDYJIHGIi3/%E2%9D%96-Base-Gallery-(Community)
  • Your Design System (in case you want to build colors / typography, etc. from that)

https://www.figma.com/downloads/

  • Download Figma Desktop Apps, Mobile Apps, and Font Installers
  • Download the Figma desktop app for macOS or Windows as well as the font installer and device preview apps (40 kB)
  • https://www.figma.com/downloads/
  • Check out https://webaim.org/
  • Identifying and Fixing ios Accessibility issues
  • What does accessibility mean to you?
  • Accessibility is Usability
  • Microsoft Accessibility ToolKit
  • European Accessibility ACT
  • Section 508 & ADA
  • Cognitive
  • Learning Difficulties
  • Anxiety
  • Mental Illness
  • Illiteracy
  • Low education
  • Non-native speaker

Motor

  • Missing digits
  • Restructured movement
  • No movement
  • Lack of fine motor skills
  • Gestures
  • Voice control

Vision

  • Colour Blindness
  • Low vision
  • No vision
  • Zoom
  • Voice over
  • Animation
  • Dark mode
  • Adjustable text sizes

Hearing

  • Deaf
  • Play controls for audio
  • Separate volume controls

How to find them?

Accessibility Accessor in Mac OS

To join the workshop you’ll need a Mac with Xcode installed, and you’ll need to clone this repo:   https://github.com/rwapp/GalacticHolidays

Mon August 29th

Keynote

  • I always let the current job define me
  • A mental Reset
  • Code is Ephemeral
  • Products evolve
  • Technology evolve
  • Jobs are Ephemeral
  • Relationships are Forever
  • How do we foster
    • Be kind
    • Be aware
  • Adjusting Priorities
  • Even when world is shattered I can still do this.
  • A blueprint for caring less
  • Leave work at work
  • “Have fewer useless opinions”
  • Embracing rediscovery

Using metric kit to measure app performance and stability

  • MetricKit is a new framework in iOS 13 for collecting and processing battery and performance metrics
  • A way to pull out key metrics on going live
  • SwifitUI performance for demanding app
  • Keep view body simple
  • Owned data is @stateobject
  • Passed data is @observedObject

Advanced Code-able

  • App.quicktype.io
  • “Data drives your app. You have to think about it.”
  • Common patterns
  • AnyCodingkey/multiple containers
  • Drilling down with nested containters
  • Top-level wrappers, custom or dictionaries
  • Engineering Beautiful and Accessible Text
  • y-mattertype
  • github.com/yml-org/ymatterType
  • Making Text Accessible
  • Accessibility Labels
  • WCAG 2.0 Contract Checking

August 30th

The Darkside of Diversity & Inclusion

  • Why diversity?
  • Can you measure?
  • How to measure improvements?
  • What is the problem?
  • Culture Fit
  • Unconscious bias
  • Tribal mentality
  • Actual Racism/Ableism/Bigotry
  • You can cultivate inclusion if you don’t feel safe.
  • Learn Respectful Discourse
  • “When I argue I wanted to be right” when I argue I represent other people
  • “It doesn’t matter to be right, when others are suffereing”
  • What can we do?
  • Advocate for others
  • Be outspoken
  • Swift Plugin

A Discourse in Humane Development

  • Short term memory
  • Extensive Capactiy
  • Active working memory
  • Cognitive

So I was a Intern in 1999

1999

Sometime in the spring of 1999 i spent a week emailing every company on www.careerlink.org looking for a internship. Of all the companies I emailed only 1 of those companies responded. Farm Credit Services of America. This lead to a phone interview and a in person interview at the Farm Credit Building on 19th and Douglas

 

. My interview consisted of asking me what I want to do. Which is programming and going down to the cafeteria to buy a pop. After being told I was hired on that day. I was told I would receive a letter in the mail in a few weeks to accept the offer officially.

 

When I received the letter and saw my hourly rate. I thought $13.00 an hour was a big deal. The previous summer I think I made $6.25 an hour.

My internship was from May to August.

Highlights on which I can remember.

The company took all interns to Des Monies to see a Iowa Cubs baseball game, farm visit and to just hangout for a few days.

 

My project was taking employee images off a 3.5 floppy disk. There were about 300 disks which 6 to 9 images on them. It took about 3 weeks to manually do this.  Saving them by networkid to a shared location. Then writing a program that would auto size them in VB6. The image was for the Company Directory so you can see who a person was.

This was for Access America which looked at the time.

 

So before the internship ended. I talked to the leader about being a full time employee when I graduate. He said reach out next year.

April 2000

So a few weeks before my graduation in April I get a call from Farm Credit Services of America having a developer position open. I never did apply for that position and didn’t get a interview. I was called two weeks before I was to graduate and told they hired another person, but because they like what I did during my Internship they created another position for me.

I started May 15, 2000. That day I started my professional career and had my first team outing that Friday.

 

Last thoughts

Come to think of it, I never actually applied for a position here. I just kept showing up everyday and getting paid.  So I am probably just on my 20+ year of being a intern. Come Monday I wonder if I will still be technically employed?

Let me know your thoughts.

Remember the reason of being a intern is to make where you are at, World Class.

 

AWS re:Invent 2022

I was able to attend AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas from November 28th to December 2, 2022.

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community.

Reasons to Attend AWS re:Invent

  • Get focused and actionable aws content for taking both my employer and career to the next level. This unique conference offers a depth and breadth of technical and nontechnical content to refine cloud strategy, improve developer productivity, increase application performance and security, and reduce infrastructure costs.
  • 150+ Deep Technical Sessions
    • Discover application architecture and development tips for apps I care about: web, mobile, serverless.
  • Our 100+ partners featured in the Expo have achieved AWS partnership, which means they have proven abilities to support you in scaling your security efforts.
  • Get your questions answered by the engineering teams that built the AWS Cloud in “Office Hours” and sessions lead by AWS architects, developers, and product leads.
  • Engage with other AWS users to share use cases, and connect with diverse professionals from around the world.

As an attendee you pick the sessions and schedule you want. I did find myself changing schedules hourly based on availability and campus.

The sessions are record for most part. A attendee is able to go back and watch on demand.

Aws Reinvent Day 1

Application Integration Patterns for Microservices (session)

Developing Ci/CD pipelines with AWS (session)

  • (chalk talk)
  • AWS code pipeline
  • Easy for organization to replicate a good tool
  • Observability
  • Security
  • Authorizations
  • Ux
  • Shared libraries
  • Chaos testing
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Rollback is always a option
  • Make it harder to do the wrong thing
  • Enablement and education
  • Building a community (start with this so conversations are easier)
  • Make it easy and right thing
  • Boiler-plate
  • Measure adoptions, report
    • Metrics (# of deployments, #of rollbacks)
  • Embrace
    • Security, operations, quality
  • Project Planning
  • Dashboard
  • Tech debt reduction

Aws AppSync workshop

https://awsworkshop.io/

Building modern data architectures on AWS (session)

  • Data Strategy- start anywhere
  • Unify
  • Modernize
  • Innovate
  • Modern data Architecture
  • Catalog
  • governance
  • data at any scale
  • best price performance
  • data access
  • AL & ML
  • Data Discovery
  • Seamless data integration with AWS Glue
  • Building event-driven architecture with ios sensor data
  • Best practices
  • Data discovery
  • Define business value
  • Migrate and modernize
  • Data tiering
  • S3 storage
    • Use iam across
  • Encrypt data rest and in-motion
  • Store the data in optimum format

AWS ReInvent Day 2

Modernize your iOS Build Pipelines with Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

  • How to manage mac instance on EC2
  • AWS Nitro architecture
  • Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
  • EC2 make gets same experience on EC2
  • Don’t want build to talk to internet
    • Private subnet
    • Security concerns
  • Technical Deep Dive
  • Run aws api to create mac instance
  • FirmWare is set by amazon
  • Automate
    • How to install xcode?
    • Sometimes you need full disk access
    • Over provision
    • Cost perspective will be for hosts
    • Use AWS services from on-premise environment
    • Customers who got best value
  • Migration opportunity helps evaluate architecture

Operational Best practices for Event-Driven Architectures

 

  • AWS Operation excellence
    • Activities after workload
    • Operate and Prepare
  • Api (rest)
    • Swagger/sdk
  • Event Consumption
    • Schema registry
  • Backward capability
  • Mitigate deployment risks
    • Small changes
    • Cd/cd
    • Testing

When we saw event-driven it is decoupled, but semantically there is coupling

Versions and event filters

  • Schema registry is managed by a producer
  • What if we push both versions?
  • How do you reach consensus between producer and consumer?
  • Schema Testing:
  • Schema diff id: swagger and schema
  • Do this in an automated approach? Ci process???
  • Ambiguity
    • You may not be able to catch everything
  • Schema repository Testing
  • AS a consumer you can be selective on processing fields
  • You can add logging and meta data to a contract
  • Testing
  • Emulation
  • Mocks
  • Testing in the cloud

Build with Prototype: Be a customer obsessed developer

  • Goals
  • Industry patterns to inform product roadmap
  • Enabled feedback flywheel
  • Ownership-> expertise – insights
  • Iterate quickly
  • Engaging the developer Community
  • Prototype
  • Graph QL API Accelerator
    • Accelerator Endpoints for developer and test
  • Blue print application
  • Enrich the developer experience
  • Customer Obsession
  • What is around the corner
  • Collecting meaningful feedback
  • Ramp up time

Create a Mobile Service for enterprise success

  • Learn what scalability is in mobile service and factor it into a service connection
  • Solutions as patterns
  • Capabilities of a scalable mobile service
  • Secure
  • Resilient
  • Elastic
  • Modular
  • Automated
  • Interoperable
  • Pivoting to a API Gateway Pattern
  • Front door or façade pattern
  • Minimal impact on existing services
  • Rollout new services incrementally
  • Visibilities of API
  • Static Content Hosting Pattern
  • DATA per service/materialized view
  • Scalability
  • Highly available
  • Caching when possible
  • CloudFront? Amazon S3
  • Amazon DynoDB
    • Key Value
    • In memory cache
  • Performance optimization: Effectiveness
  • Spatial Locally Pattern
  • Pre-Calculation Pattern
  • Event Based Async Patterns
  • Optimization
  • Separate read and write stories
  • Store pre-calculated data nearby
  • Redundant data when necessary to minimize resource consumption
  • Extensibility
  • Pub/sub pattern
  • Orchestration pattern

AWS Day 3

Modern Mobile Application

Best Practice for securing your software delivery lifecycle

  • Security Challenges
  • Compliance and security
  • When you have a security incident
  • DevOps is a philosophy not a team
  • DevSecOps
  • SLSA Framework
  • Guardrails
  • Security is a conscious process
  • Software bill of materials (SBOM)

Build Machine learning models efficiently with Amazon SageMaker notebooks

AWS Day 4

Advance Serverless workflow patterns and best practices

https://serverlessland.com/reinvent2022/api309

  • Step Functions
  • From code to workflow
  • Standard vs Express
  • Cost is better for Express
  • The “REST” Easy Pattern
  • The “Call Back” Pattern

Automating and evidencing key compliance security controls

  • 3V’s
  • Cloud aptitude
  • Mental Models
  • Plan for risk management

Replay

Replay is the after party event for AWS which allows you to unwind after a long four days of training.

AWS Aurora Immersion Days

AWS Aurora / MySql Immersion Day

 

Today I was given the opportunity to attend a AWS Learning Session on Amazon Aurora. This was my introduction to Amazon database technology. I have been using Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.5 in 1999. I never had to deal with any other database technology.

 

 

Agenda

Notes on Labs:

 

Other

Four-part series AWS blog posts come key elements of Aurora Design https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-the-hood-quorum-and-correlated-failure/

 

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Integrating.AutoScaling.html

 

Intro The Composable Architecture

One Tuesday January 11th. I attend the virtual  Omaha Swift/Google meetups. There is a 30 minute presentation on iOS and Android content.

6:00-6:30 PM iOS – Intro The Composable Architecture
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture


6:30-7:00 PM Android – Evolution of UI Layer Events
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/guide/ui-layer/events

I also recommend others to check out Mobile Meetups or any other at www.meetup.com

2020 Spring UNO Hackathon

HackUNO is a 24 hour competition in which teams of 1-3 students work together to create software and hardware projects. At the end of the 24 hours, the projects are judged by various criteria, including our theme. This year, our theme is weather. We hope to bring together students from all over the Midwest to compete, build awesome projects, and network with each other and companies.

I helped sponsor the meeting

2020 Spring UNO prototype

I volunteered to be in the UNO Prototype program.

Employer Expectations

  • Meet up with the student for a one-off in-person conversation lasting roughly 30-60 minutes. The meeting could simply involve a sit-down conversation or extend beyond that to include sitting in on a meeting or getting a facility/office tour. We leave this to the student-employer connection to determine.
  • Be willing to engage in a conversation regarding one’s career journey and answer questions from an exploring student.

 

2020 Fall UNO CBA Capstone Cup Round 1

On Friday, October 16, 2020 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM I was a judge for the First Round of the University of Nebraska – Omaha Capstone Cup. The Capstone Cup is a strategy competition for Senior Level students that Farm Credit Services of America is a sponsor of the 2020 / 2021 school year.

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I was a judge on 3 rounds of students presenting a strategic plan to the board of the directors of a company. For being virtually the students did a great job presenting. The students were graded on a 10 point system on problem formulation, analysis, recommendation and presentation.

2021 Spring UNO Thompson Learning Center Speed Interviews

On Friday, March 26, 2021 from 8am – 4pm. I participated in the UNO Thompson Learning Center speed Interviews. This was open to Employer & Community Partners.  this event, has nearly 280 Thompson Learning Community (TLC) sophomore students will practice their interviewing skills and connect with employers.

TLC students consist of all majors. Practice interviews will be formatted in 10 minute bursts with 5 minutes of feedback. In one hour, you may get connected with up to four students.

I was assigned a breakout room. That is when the practice interview begins.  Each student did a practice interviews of about 15 minutes in duration. The first 10 minutes will be you asking the student interview questions followed by the last 5 minutes to provide constructive feedback.  The feedback is to instill confidence yet provide candid feedback for growth.

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