Cas's Blog

This week we started to integrate the frontend and backend of the issue tracker that my team is building for our capstone project. We made some changes to our original architecture design, but I think it is for the better. We also started building the user authorization/authentication functionality. This post will provide a general update…

For our capstone project, we encountered a same-origin restriction issue. What this means is that our browsers were preventing our frontend web server to retrieve API responses from our backend server. The same-origin policy essentially means that modern day browsers will prevent domain A from loading resources from domain B. This is primarily due to…

In last week’s post I talked about a connection issue that I was experiencing in my capstone project. I was unable to make calls from our server, which is hosted on Google App Engine, to our database, which is hosted on Google Cloud SQL. And today, after days of trial and error, I finally fixed…

Today I’m going to talk about the current issues I’m encountering with Google Cloud. I’m in the process of standing up our production environment for the CS467 Capstone Project (an issue tracker like Jira). There have been (and continue to be) many speed bumps along the way, however I am learning a lot. In previous…

I’ve been learning Google Cloud Platform (GCP) lately, because of the work that I am doing for CS467 (Capstone) and CS493 (Cloud Applications). And I find it fascinating because it is quick and easy to leverage Google’s wealth of cloud resources, the documentation is great, and the skills you learn seem highly applicable to the…

Today’s blog is a collection of my thoughts about the beginnings of my CS467 project. I will discuss the project, team structure, tech stack, and other project-related thoughts. Today my team met for the first time to discussed our CS467 project. We (Kevin, KP, and myself) agreed to build an issue tracker, similar to Jira…

I started the online post-bacc program in January 2021 with two goals: To complete the program in 1.5 years To secure a full-time position at a major tech company I am on track to complete both goals by June 2022. Today I will talk about how I secured a job at a FAANG company. When…

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