Climbing Mountains Into the Cloud#
Welcome to my website. I’m Monica, a DevOps Enthusiast currently working as an OR Nurse in the Lisbon District.
Here I share notes and articles about the technical subjects I’m learning and experimenting with, such as Linux, scripting, containers, container orchestration and cloud platforms.
Because I’m very interested in productivity and efficiency, you will also find posts about note-taking, learning strategies, and focused work.
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Most Recent Posts#
Imagine you discover this beautiful mountain: the tallest of all around, it’s summit’s bare during the summer, and covered in snow during winter time.
Simultaneously beautiful and frightening, would you like to climb it? I would, for sure. The view from up there must be breathtaking!
Choosing My Mountains Last month, I spent every early morning for a week walking and hiking back in nature’s grounds, soaking in the sound of birds waking up for the new day, enjoying the smell of wet grass, and stopping to appreciate the view when the sun finally shone its light.
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Every time I’d open my email app, I would feel a pinch of despair. With over 3000 messages, I felt discouraged about how I could solve this. Processing a few messages at a time wasn’t working.
Inspired by Mischa van den Burg’s video The Importance of Digital Housekeeping, at the end of July I decided to challenge myself and clean my email inbox in one sitting.
Problems I had three major problems caused by a poorly managed email system:
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I always had an interest in finding out how things worked to really understand them. So, when I decided to start this learning journey it didn’t make sense for me to begin at the software layer: I sought to learn about how computers are built, their different components and their functions.
After a while, I felt the need to see and hold these parts in my hands, because learning the theory is important, but putting that knowledge into practice consolidates what you’ve learned.
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