Review of 2021 & plans for 2022 as a software engineer

The usual procedure continues. Reviewing last year and planning next year.

Below are the goals from 2021 as published last year with status.

2021 - What was planned

Goals

• Continue
• ✅Focus on containers and K8s hands-on.
• ✅Pass the AZ-303 certification
• ✅Linux - Become an intermediate level knowledge
• ✅Continue to learn more and more enterprise practices. Including infrastructure concerns to understand how to run production systems than just building those
• ✅Continue making 1 blog post per week.
• ❌At least 25% or more posts to be videos
• ❌100 subscribers in my coding channel Joymon v/s Code.
• ✅Monthly 1-2 hours to personal projects
• New
• ✅Learn Python language. The goal is to reach an intermediate level
• ✅Build experience in Unified .Net platform.
• Experiments
• ❌The big thing would be an attempt to present a topic in a public event conducted by user groups.
• ❌At least 10% posts to external sites such as CodeProject, DZone CSharpCorner, etc.
• ❌Set up a blockchain and write one smart contract
• ❌Write my own GitHub action.

Additional achievements

• Architected microservice-based applications that are getting deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Migrated my personal website https://joymononline.in/ to JAMstack architecture based on  Hugo from AngularJS.

What I was not going to do

• ✅Blockchain coding - expertise.
• ✅WebAssembly - Maybe watching some videos. Not in deep.
• ✅Go & Scala - Same as web assembly.
• ✅Data science algorithms

2022 - What is ahead

Goals

• Continue
• Linux - Install personal laptop to Linux and build expertise
• Python - Continue learning to become intermediate level.
• Pass AZ-304 exam. Continue learning Azure computing.
• Continue making 1 blog post per week.
• At least 25% or more posts to be videos
• Achieve 250 subscribers in my coding YouTube channel Joymon v/s Code.
• Monthly 1-2 hours to personal projects
• New
• WebAssembly - Try out apps
• Blazor - Learn basics
• Set up Ethereum blockchain and write one smart contract
• Experiments
• The big thing would be an attempt to present a topic in a public event conducted by user groups.
• At least 10% posts to external sites such as CodeProject, DZone CSharpCorner, etc.
• Write my own GitHub action.
• Write a test Telegram/Discord bot
• Write a test Flutter app

What I am not going to do

• Blockchain coding - expertise.
• Go & Scala - Maybe watching some videos. Not in deep.
• Data science algorithms.