Omar Tsai

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Oracle Use case My use-case was relatively simple. We needed an application to track supply chain demands over time. The reason was that the company I was working with were still using hand-written notes and sending these notes to vendors who would then transcribe it and send assets over. All of this took a lot of overhead and time; furthermore, it was very easy to forget what kind of assets were already purchased since there was no searchable history. The tech stack built to approach this problem was a front-end built in react and hosted statically. The backend was a simple Django application, simply wrapping around my DB and simply hosting the API / backend. This was the only thing I needed to host and honestly it could be a completely serverless application, but I didn't want to muck around too much with serverless as this project had a timeline of a week. Digital Ocean Digital ocean, as you may already know, is a cloud hosting provider for develop

I really think, that to get anywhere in life we have to continually push ourselves. This stems from what I've felt over the past few years. I realized that I'm not happy just working a 9-5. I need to work a job, have many side projects going on, and be working towards something meaningful.  Case in point: recently I was finishing up this paper. It was really hard to juggle so much time between work, implementing our method, and writing the  paper. Oh, and that's not to mention all the daily obligations of life! But, I felt more productive in all aspects of my life! Not only in being able to do many things at once, but I also r ealized that I was more productive at work related tasks! It's fascinating that working more makes me more productive rather than the other way around. Kind of makes me wonder if this is what the definition of a workaholic is? 🤔 Anyhow! That's my little rant of today! It finally started snowing in Ottawa. In fact, today was the first day it a