🗣️ Let’s talk about respect, experience, and the frustrating ritual of job negotiations. I’ve been in the IT industry for over 23 years. So when a recruiter calls and immediately dives into a checklist of technologies asking, “Have you worked with X?” “What about Y?” “Why isn’t Z on your resume?” I can’t help but feel frustrated. đź“„ Here’s the reality: If I listed every single technology, tool, or platform I’ve worked with over the past two decades, my CV would be 10 pages long — and no one would want to read it.

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🚀 If you’re currently using Terraform 1.5.7, you’re likely aware that it has officially reached its end of life. At this crossroads, many teams are asking the same question: Should we upgrade to the latest Terraform release or switch to OpenTofu? Here’s the short answer: Migrating to OpenTofu is a technically superior and future-proof choice. Let’s explore why, focusing on real technical advantages and ecosystem health. đź”§ 1. OpenTofu is a Drop-in Replacement — With More Control OpenTofu is fully open-source and Terraform-compatible, particularly up to version 1.

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Hay Mas Tiempo

Los dichos tienen la virtud y la crueldad de explicar y exponer de manera sencilla pero cruel y directa situaciones de vida que a todos nos afectan. Hay más tiempo que vida es un dicho que intenta (y en su mayoría de veces fracasa) de dar ánimos a las personas que se encuentran saturadas y agobiadas de tareas y responsabilidades. Todas estas obligaciones no respetan edad, estatus económico ni social, agobian desde el mas jóven hasta el más viejo.

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2025

Aún cuando la vida es un reto diario, este año desmotró ser el año más retador que he vivido. Creo firmemente que lo que no te mata te hace mas fuerte y definitivamente este año pasado me llevó a límites que conocía.

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Why Ecs Fargate

Why Use Amazon ECS and Fargate to Deploy Your Node.js Application? In the world of cloud-native development, efficient and scalable deployment strategies are crucial for modern applications. For Node.js developers, leveraging Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Fargate offers a host of advantages, simplifying deployment, scaling, and management. In this post, we’ll explore why ECS and Fargate are excellent choices for deploying Node.js applications. Serverless Container Management No Infrastructure to Manage Fargate allows you to run containers without managing the underlying EC2 instances.

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Skill Matrix

One draw back of being in the IT industry for so many years is the amount of technologies I’ve used in all past projects, this complicates things even more when I’m on a interview and I’m asked one of the most nonesense questions, whish is: How many years of experience do you have in ____ technology? Just fill whichever technology you want in the blank and as you might know, the answer is mostly nonsense.

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Python Learning

Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time doing some Pythong programing and learning some new tricks and skills with it. I am in no way a software developer or software engineer, but I would like to be more fluent when writing Python scripts. I’ve been thinking about how to brush up my skills and how to present them in a more effective and organized way. I’ll share more information in the next blog post.

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Kwame Bahena

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