CSU Monterey Bay Learning Journal

What project milestones did you accomplish this week? This week I successfully completed the AWS Cloud Practitioner course on Amazon as well as the Agile Project Management course . In addition to completing the coursework, I applied the AWS concepts I learned by deploying an older project to the cloud in order to test and reinforce my new skills. The site is currently being hosted at: http://54.177.87.154:3000/ For this project, I built and deployed the application using several AWS services. I created a Docker image of my project and stored it in Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) . My ECS service pulls this image and runs the containerized application. The project’s data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL database , which handles the backend data storage. I also configured an S3 bucket to store static assets such as pet photos, CSS files, and JavaScript files. Additionally, I set up security groups to control network traffic and manage access to the different services. The g...

What did you expect a course in Software Engineering would cover? Before starting this course, I had pretty low expectations. I assumed it would mostly focus on basic coding concepts and terminology, similar to what I had already seen in other classes. I did not expect it to go much deeper than that. After completing Week 1, how has your opinion changed? After completing Week 1, my opinion has changed a lot. I am honestly very impressed with both the labs and the upcoming modules. My first week in this course has reignited my passion for coding because it already feels much more hands-on and practical than I expected. One of the things that stood out to me most was Professor David’s lab videos. They helped me better understand the purpose behind what we were doing instead of just following instructions. I especially liked how he demonstrated using Postman’s UI to test API endpoints first. Seeing the requests and responses in Postman made it easier to visualize how the API was work...