https://tomking.xyz/categories/reflections/ Recent content in Reflections on Tom Tech Notes Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:09:15 +1000 https://tomking.xyz/posts/how-to-survive-this-crazy-ai-world/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:09:15 +1000 https://tomking.xyz/posts/how-to-survive-this-crazy-ai-world/ Lets admit it, this is not best time to be a software engineer or for anyone whose job is basically sitting in front of a computer. AI is moving so fast these days, and it’s so overwhelming to a lot of us. Earlier this year, I buried my head in the sand. I convinced myself it wouldn’t affect me that much. I will just sit tight and see it bust just like what happened to Internet around 2000. https://tomking.xyz/posts/my-cka-experience/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:02:22 +1000 https://tomking.xyz/posts/my-cka-experience/ Recently I was able to tick CKA off my TODO list. It’s a interesting and unique exam in compare to other certs I have done in my career. Below are some points I want to share to help out folks who plan to take the exam. Was it hard? The exam is not super difficult in my opinion. My daily job gives me plenty of exposure to different Kubernetes issues. So I was relatively comfortable with the technology itself. https://tomking.xyz/2019/05/sydney-aws-summit-2019-my-experience.html Fri, 03 May 2019 21:41:00 -0700 https://tomking.xyz/2019/05/sydney-aws-summit-2019-my-experience.html The past week I attended AWS Summit Sydney for three days. It’s such an action packed show. Full of brilliant speakers and tons of interesting workshops. I feel so hard to decide on my agenda. In the end, based on the technologies I am interested in and the relevance to my job these are sessions I went for. AWS Innovation Day Keynote - I was late for it. But still It was good to hear the story of Qantas and learn about how they improve performance and efficiency with AWS. https://tomking.xyz/2018/10/how-did-i-pass-aws-solution-architect.html Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:08:00 -0700 https://tomking.xyz/2018/10/how-did-i-pass-aws-solution-architect.html This post will be a bit different from my usual technical walk through. I recently passed AWS Solution Architect Professional exam with just three weeks of preparation. In this post, I want to share my experience with the exam itself as well as how I prepared for it. Hopefully you will find it somewhat useful. I booked the exam on 1st Oct 2018. Honestly I didn’t expect myself to pass at that time.