Designing and implementing network architectures in Google Cloud with a variety of use case. Configuring network services such as VPC instances, Google Cloud Load balancers, Hybrid Connectivity, Cloud DNS, and GKE networks, and Monitoring.
Configuring and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters. Understanding elemental kubernetes concepts such as networking, persistent volumes, Kubernetes API objects, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
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This project was initiated by my jealously of the Spotify wrapped website. That site is fantastic, It’s a perfect combination of data and arts. Then I started to pitch some ideas on top of that concept. I found that my country Indonesia has an enormous amount of native languages. That got my mind thinking an exploratory site which presents these languages in a map and shows where are they originally from and spoken. The idea was how to present these maps and languages as if they were on a museum, and I also wanted to give people an experience of walking in a museum and letting them to find interesting places and languages in Indonesia to wonder about. I made Bahasa Gallery. Bahasa means language in Indonesia, I find the word Gallery was the most catchiest word to represent a museum or an exhibit at that moment. It took me almost 2 years working on this project. I changed the design quite a lot, I got to deal with the technical implementation of the design concepts I had. There were lots of hurdles. I went really hard on placing objects in the threejs coordinate system, effects, basic shaders, animations, and coordinating states between transitions.
I worked on this project in 2017. This project was hugely inspired by visual essays made by pudding.cool which was polygraph at that time if I remember correctly. I saw there was an essay about hip hop vocabularies and I was fascinated by it, and I wanted to make something like it. I began to take a look at the trending list in my country and our president was the most popular figure at that moment. I looked at his twitter account and scrolled down his timeline, tried to find something interesting and I thought to myself what are the things he likes to talk about in his tweets. I immediately fired up my Jupiter notebook and scrapped his tweets in my local computer. I arrived to an idea of finding topics by looking at his words usage. It was a really fun project.
I would consider this as a very challenging coding exercise. I got to a new job working with Vue and I was a little left out from react updates, and there were new react features that I missed like hooks and suspense. React suspense was at the early the development and I thought maybe I could leave it for a moment and come back to it later, but react hook was really intriguing. I really wanted to learn it. Then I found a beautiful animation work in dribbble. It was a very complex animation, I got to deal with complex animation states and transitions.
I decided to make a collection of topojson maps of my country Indonesia. There was no good open source map of Indonesia, there were only shapefiles available. Shapefiles are just too big for web browsers, I don’t want users to pull lots of megabytes of files just to see the map of Indonesia. I worked on making the topojson files of Indonesia and putting them on a GitHub repository. I was lucky that I found tools like ndjson-cli and mapshaper, I could make super lightweight topojson files without sacrificing the details of the map.
I worked on this project on a week during the end of ramadhan in 2018. I was on a holiday and I didn’t know what to do. I saw a beautiful photograph in unsplash and it was a firework photo. It became a source of inspiration of this project. I could work on this project very quick because of the abundance of d3 helpful functions, the thing I needed to do was to wire them up together in React.
I got fascinated by a javascript library called RxJs. RxJs is an amazing library and it’s still quite popular till these days. I decided to share publicly some complex use cases like Ajax cancellation and handling animations that can be done in a very easy way in RxJs. RxJs doesn’t tightly depend on a specific library or framework. And I made demos for Angular, Vue, and React to show how convenient it is to integrate RxJs to existing Javascript frameworks.