About Program: The AWS Community Builders (CB) is a cloud community program officially organized by AWS. The program is designed to support enthusiastic AWS community members by providing: Technical mentorship, Exclusive networking opportunities, Virtual speak events.
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Read writing from Ashish Patel (me) on Medium! Here I write about the things I do and love. Sole author and writer of many publications.
Share my technical knowledge and experience on AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, .NET, DevOps, etc.
I love to contribute to open-source projects and study their source code. Manage many public and private repositories on GitHub.
Create and manage many POCs, Practice Labs, Demos, Samples, and notes of my learnings! Created various applications with different architecture patterns (such as distributes microservice, cloud-native, event-driven, serverless) and configure CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipeline, and Deploy on Microsoft Azure for personal use. Also, use Docker and Kubernetes!
Created NuGet Packages for ASP.NET Core applications. LiteX packages are the modular and simple yet powerful and very high-performance projects that make developers' lives easier!
LiteX packages are wrappers for useful third party providers for Caching, Storage, Email, Sms, HealthChecks, DbHelpers, and many more...
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (by AWS)
Earners of this certification have an extensive understanding of designing technical strategies to accomplish specific business goals. They demonstrated the ability to balance best practices and trade-offs based on business context. Badge owners are able to design solutions across multiple platforms and providers.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (by Azure)
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KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (by The Linux Foundation)
Earners of this designation demonstrated a basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, including how to deploy an application using basic kubectl commands, the architecture of Kubernetes (containers, pods, nodes, clusters), understanding the cloud-native landscape and projects (storage, networking, GitOps, service mesh), and understanding the principles of cloud-native security.Earners of this designation demonstrated
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Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (by Azure)
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (by Azure)
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (by Azure)
Earning Azure Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement, manage, and monitor an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment. Candidates have a deep understanding of each implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, plus provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources, when needed.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (by Azure)
Earners of the Azure Data Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they are implemented using Microsoft Azure data services.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (by Azure)
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This certification is designed for individuals who possess a strong foundation knowledge in architecting infrastructure using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services. This certification covers topics such as: Cloud computing concepts (HA, DR, Security), regions, availability domains, OCI terminology and services, networking, databases, Autonomous Database, load balancing, FASTCONNECT, VPN, Compartments, Identity and Access Management, and tagging.
The OCI Foundations certification is intended for individuals looking to demonstrate knowledge of public cloud services provided by OCI.Certification is for candidates with non-technical backgrounds such as those involved in selling or procuring cloud solutions & with technical background who want to validate their foundational level knowledge around core OCI services.This exam does not require any hands-on technical experience & is not a prerequisite for taking any other OCI certifications.
MCP: Exam 486: Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications (by Microsoft)
Passing Exam 486: Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications validates a candidate’s ability to design the user experience, security solutions, and application architecture as well as troubleshoot and debug web applications.
Earners of this badge are AWS Partners who have developed fundamental, technical knowledge of AWS cloud computing, global infrastructure, services, solutions, migration and security.
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MSUS Cloud Skills Challenge Champion (by Microsoft Azure)
Earners of the MSUS Cloud Skills Challenge Champion badge have demonstrated foundational level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure.
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials (by The Linux Foundation)
Earners of the LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials badge understand cloud native architecture and modern container orchestration systems and how they differ from legacy environments. They can explain the high-level architecture of Kubernetes and when to use the different objects to manage workload, networking or storage. They understand the concepts of cloud native observability and application delivery with CI/CD and GitOps tools and how they can interact with a Kubernetes cluster.
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I have won "Cloud Quizzing Challenges" organized by KonfHub, several times on different topics like Networking, Kubernetes, DevOps, GitOps, Serverless, Databases, etc.
Create and manage various POCs with different application architecture patterns. e.g. Monolithic, 3-Tier, Clean Architecture, Micro-services, OpenId Connect, IDV4, OIdCDist, Serverless!
I manage all such projects using private repositories only.
LiteXStorage is simple yet powerful and very high-performance storage mechanism and incorporating both synchronous and asynchronous usage with some advanced usages of cloud storage which can help us to handle storage more easier!
LiteXCache is simple yet powerful and very high performance cache mechanism and incorporating both synchronous and asynchronous usage with some advanced usages of caching which can help us to handle caching more easier!
LiteXEmail is simple yet powerful and very high-performance email mechanism and incorporating both synchronous and asynchronous usage with some advanced usages which can help us to handle sending email more easier!
LiteXSms is simple yet powerful and very high-performance sms mechanism and incorporating both synchronous and asynchronous usage with some advanced usages which can help us to handle sending sms more easier!
LiteXDbHelper is simple yet powerful and very high-performance DB Helper Class for different database providers like SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSql, MariaDB, Oracle in C#
LiteXHealthChecks is very small yet powerful and high-performance library used to check the status of a component in the application, such as a backend service, database or some internal state. Advanced HealthChecks for ASP.NET Core Applications!
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