Another year has seemingly flown past.

Although advanced experiments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been around for a long time, for the common people it was usually portayed in a futuristic science fiction movies. Virtual assistants like Google Assistant and Siri etc. that are able to understand natural language queries have been helping us for some time.

When the org website for ae app labs was redesigned and upgraded to use SvelteKit, I added an animated background for the hero section. I had that idea for a long time and wanted to change the boring and simple background from the last redesign.

Last Saturday I got a message on my instagram account from an old aquaintance of mine whom I had met at a photography event back in 2017. Little did I suspect who was on the other side.

Having recently updated the ae app labs org website to use SvelteKit, I came across some SEO optimizations that can be done to improve how articles are previewed on Twitter, Linked In etc.

This year has flown past especially towards the latter stages of the year, as I had plans to take a Cloud Certification before the year is up. Whether it is the busy schedule or procrastinating with the learning until the exam is scheduled, I can’t tell to be certain.

Last year I had learnt Spring Cloud and the various components in it, and also had some written notes. So this year, when I came across them I decided to persist it in digital form.

Being a Java developer and having used Spring frameowrk and Spring Boot for most of my enterprise projects, it was vey easy to be work with Spring Cloud for microservices. Spring Cloud provides tools to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems.