DEV Community: Kartik Tyagi

Macfolio - DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon

Kartik Tyagi — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 07:37:06 +0000

🔰 What I built

I built my portfolio website in a unique way. Everybody is familiar with MacOS but how much would it be amazing to experience the UI/UX of MacOS in Web View. I hope you would get amazed and enjoy my work.
As it's a combination of MacOS and Portfolio, I named it 'Macfolio'.

Category Submission:

Personal Site/Portfolio

App Link

https://genialkartik.tech/

Screenshots

Description

Macfolio is my visionary project and I initiated this project as Personal Portfolio website. But it is much more than that. The Vision behind this project is to create a futuristic OS which will entirely work on/upon Cloud. Also, the use cases and outcome are endless, it'll be helpful to work using AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality). Think it like - You can code or do whatever you do on laptop/PC by wearing glasses only (something like this: Instagram ). Sounds fascinating but improbable, right!
This project will also be helpful in getting rid of carrying bulky hardware devices and their unbearable costs. The used cases of this project are boundless.

Link to Source Code

https://github.com/genialkartik/Macfolio

Permissive License

MIT License

Background

I got my inspiration for this project after visiting some amazing developer's portfolio website like https://bruno-simon.com/ and http://www.prateeknarang.com/.
I open sourced this project as well.

How I built it

I build this project using MERN Stack and hosted it on Digital Ocean Platform. Used VS Code editor and Open Sourced my code on Github.

Embed your dev.to posts in React

Kartik Tyagi — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:23:16 +0000

Hey Reader,
You landed over here that indicates you also want to embed your posts on dev.to into your personal website or any other site in the simplest way possible.
Don't worry! I got you🤟.

I created this NPM package (react-devdotto) to embed your dev.to posts in React App in no time.

Now, let just dive into how it works.

Install react-devdotto:

npm install --save react-devdotto

Import DevDotTo in the file in which you want to embed posts:

import DevDotTo from 'react-devdotto

Put below component and replace username with your dev.to username (you'll get it in the URL of your profile):

<DevDotTo username="genialkartik" />

You can also pass a parameter coverimage={false} to remove cover images from blogs list. *Note: default value of coverimage is true.

Well Done! You did it🥳.

Visit NPM to learn more:

Feeling too lazy to test?
Then just fork project below on CodeSandbox.io & try with the below code snippet:

Want to contribute?

Then just fork and clone this repository on Github.

Navigate cd react-devdotto.
run npm install to install all required dependencies.
Make changes or fix bug.
Make sure to run build npm build before commiting all changes.
Open a pull request to master or v*** branch. Now lemme buy you a coffee ☕.

Happy Coding!✨

🌐 Get in touch: kartiktyagi.codes
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AWS EC2 Instance

Kartik Tyagi — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:52:46 +0000

This Gistdicated to all those beginners and learners who are seeking to learn and explore Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing seems to be a complicated term, but believe me it not. Especially, when you're working on AWS Cloud Computing platform. So, without wasting more time lets begin.

Introduction

Hey Readers! This Blog is to acknowledge one of the most widely used Cloud Computing services provided by Amazon under AWS cloud computing services. That is, EC2 or Elastic Cloud Computing. It is widely used and easy to learn and explore. We all know the fact that in cloud computing no other company or service can even be compared with AWS, not even Google's Cloud Computing. It is because AWS provides-

better and easy to use UI/UX to the users.
Consistency & Reliability.
Flexibility, Scalability, and high-performance
Pay-As-You-Go Pricing (cost-effective)
a lot of customization.
Security as its prior concern
Learning platforms and Tutorials, and never lasting documentation.
And most of all, incomparable customer care support.

Click here to know more about AWS.

Meanwhile, Check out the free-tier services first provided by AWS, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/free/ for the same.

Coming to the main focus of this writing, we're going to cover below-mentioned topics in this blog:

Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2):

About EC2
Setup EC2 Instance
Stepwise installation.
Setup SSH Key
Connect and clone Git repo
install Node.js, NPM modules, and learn how to launch a website.
Conclusion

AWS Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2)

1. About AWS EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware upfront, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your need to forecast traffic. Read more…
~ AWS

2. Setup EC2 Instance
Sign up on AWS at https://aws.amazon.com/ and make an account. You will need to enter your billing and credit card information. However, you'll be charged few dollars or less just to get confirm it's a legit account and the deducted amount will get refunded later on.

Note: You should delete instances you no longer need to ignore any additional billing unknowingly.

Find and Select Amazon EC2 from listed products and services.
Click the button: "Launch Instance"

Now, adhere to the steps mentioned below to get started and for a successful installation.

Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI): This is the operating system your virtual machine in the cloud will be. As Ubuntu is popular, open-sourced, easy to use, and included in free tier eligibility.

Step 2: Choose an Instance Type: Leave it at "General purpose t2.micro free tier eligible". Click "Next: Configure Instance Details."

Step 3: Configure Instance Details: Leave the default settings. Click "Next: Add Storage"

Step 4: Add Storage: Leave the default settings. Click "Next: Add Tags"

Step 5: Add Tags: Create a key and value. I named mine "tutorial-key": "tutorial-value"

Step 6: Configure Security Group: Check the radio button labeled "create a new security group" and give it a name and description. Make sure there is an SSH type listed and add HTTP and HTTPS. Click "Review and Launch"

Step 7: Review Instance Launch: Click "Launch" The following window should appear. Select "Create a new key pair" and type in a name. Click "Download." Make sure you save this file!!! Click "launch instance" You should be redirected to a page where you can click "view instances" to see all your instances. Your new EC2 instance should appear and may take a few moments to initialize.

Yuuhoo! You have successfully created a new EC2 instance!

I hope, by now. you must have successfully launched an EC2 in your AWS console. But If you get stuck somewhere and unable to solve any problem, write me back in anytime. Connection links are listed in end. As we're going to setup ssh connections further we need EC2 instance up and running.

4. Set up ssh connection

On your local machine, move the download file (tutorial.pem) to your project's root folder and open terminal in the root directory of your project.

Type 'chmod 400 tutorial.pem' to change required permissions.

Go back to your AWS Console and open EC2 dashboard> Running instances and click on 'connect'. Here you'll find more details to access your SSH instance. Now, copy example there and type in similar command in terminal:

ssh -i "tutorial.pem" ubuntu@ec2–15–236–127–272.ap-south1.compute.amazonaws.com

Now, you may get into your remote EC2 instance's operating system via your terminal.

Note: you can also use third-party software like Putty.

5. Clone GitHub Repo and Launch your website:**
Clone project from Github to EC2 console terminal. Run:

git clone https://github.com/genialkartik/NodeJS_demo_repo.git .
cd NodeJS_demo_repo

6. Install node.js, npm, and launch our website

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install nodejs
 sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
 sudo apt-get install build-essential
 sudo apt-get install npm
 npm install
 npm start

If everything goes well, you'll get a message in the console
'Server running at http://ec2-15-236-127-272.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3000'
Follow the link or enter your Public DNS (IPv4) in URL with :3000 port.

After a few mins or two, you should be able to refresh your site in the browser and see your web application up and running!
Woaaahhoo!! Congrats you did it!!

7. Conclusion
Phew!! that was a lot to understand for the day. I hope you loved it and successfully launched your website using AWS EC2 instance.
If you really like it or it may prove helpful to you anyhow, you are welcome to continue looking around on kartiktyagi.codes and read even more exciting articles. You are welcome to reach me out for any unsettled questions! :)

Information as a Service (Cloud Computing)

Kartik Tyagi — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:06:29 +0000

This Article aka Blog will help to acknowledge about a well renounced and new innovative method data handling and its management in Cloud Computing and that is Information as a Service (IaaS). Don't get confused with the terms Information as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service or Identity as a Service. Information as a Service a whole new concept as well as identical notion in Cloud Computing.

A Quick Abstract

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Information as a Service is an integral feature or part of it. It is an innovation shift to increase the utilization of technology and virtualization as well. It's an operational move to transform IT business and its enhancement & service management.

1. Introduction

Information as a Service
Offerings & Use Case
Need of "Information Infrastructure"
Advantages and Importance 5.1 Customer control for assent 5.2 Minimal Disclosure 5.3 Justifiable access 5.3.1 Content management 5.3.2 Business Intelligence 5.3.3 Database Services 5.3.4 Information Integration
Security and Techniques
Key Features
The Requirements for an "Information Architect" Conclusion

1. Introduction

Information as a Service (IaaS) could be a incontestable approach to productive service arrangement. Reflecting about data and information as break free from the procedures that utilization them is one key part. This comparatively lowest effort approach can alter departments to maximize service quality and provides price savings. It is additionally a vital advancement if cloud computing is being focused and considered.
Information as a Service could be a service, which supplies (serves) knowledge/data/information in a method or another.

The definition continues with explaining the term from a small amount a lot of technical view: In a terribly broad sense, the term info as a Service is often wont to talk to the interaction between folks, algorithmic processes, information and technology. Its applications are boundless. The implementation of the infrastructure of Information make it easy to integrate, operate effectively and securely. In IT companies and organization, Information infrastructure provided handy and easy to store & operate data of the user and the service.

2. Information as a Service

Information as a Service could be a developing cloud business model within which a corporation shares or offers relevant information to a different company or people to play out their business models and Technology Start-up. IaaS clients would prefer not to or don't have the assets to process and analyze data.

In the realm of cloud computing wherever storage and compute are accessed utilizing noticeably characterized and well defined APIs, a tendency to even have on the market information which will be as simply accessed, additionally utilizing all around characterised APIs.
Address validation or Zip code and look-up, Payment getting ready, Services that validate or complete information, and so on are the listed instance of Info which are being used as a Service.

3. Offerings & Use Case

Information as a Service offers a disentangled, integrated perspective of real-time, useful information about a few explicit business entity, for instance, a consumer, product or any entity. Information is given within the structure needed, oftentimes sent through SOA infrastructure.
Be that because it could, this definition is not sufficiently ready to depict the vary and domain of data as a Service. consequently, it's necessary to characterize the term info as a Service during a explicit setting. luckily, Wikipedia conveys, or higher locution serves, an excellent that means of this distinctive circumstance, that is termed information as a Service.

Information as a Service is any combination of data technology and people's activities utilizing that technology to support operations, management, and decision-making.

An IaaS (Information as a Service) would wish to own the choice to manage cloud relationships, perceive security policies and ways, notice the way to handle info and administer privacy, fathom earth science, offer an event reaction, archive, and permit for the framework to be questioned, all to grade which will be captured during a Service Level Agreement.

4. Need of "Information Infrastructure"

The configuration document A record that contains the settings information - the quantity of RAM, range of processors, range and type of Network Interface Cards (NICs), range and type of virtual disks - for the virtual machine. Documents that contain any info which might unremarkably be contained within a physical magnetic disk. Business managers square measure requiring IT operations to assess the risks and blessings this problem solving information model speaks to.

The hamlet Forum, a global free gathering of data security leaders, has supplemental their contribution on the way to collaborate information as a Service safely within the clouds.

Fig 1: Flow chart demonstrating Information as a Service

Web services will stay applications running on numerous electronic communication product platforms, transforming information from one application to be created on the market to others, and sanctionative internal applications to be created on the market over the net. Information service or the knowledge Service is one that stores the knowledge related to a digital component during a structure that will be questioned and managed to be used in electronic transactions.

Information services have as their center capacities: a knowledge store, a question engine, and a policy engine that adheres to information integrity.

DNS establishes the identity of a website as having an area with a great deal of appointed addresses and associated info with a businessman which proprietor's info, so forward. On the off probability that the identification is that the appointed scientific discipline range, totally different properties square measure its meta-data.

5. Advantages and Importance

Through a lifecycle approach, IaaS can help in business capture, organize, integrate, transform, analyze, and use information to create information inside a SOA domain. Information as a service encompasses a range of software, services and answers for address the appropriate starting point for the business:

5.1 Customer control for assent

Users control their personality and must agree to the utilization of their information. Like - The hamlet Forum, a global free gathering of data security leaders, has supplemental their contribution on the way to collaborate information as a Service safely within the clouds to facilitate the needs of customers.

5.2 Minimal Disclosure

The minimal amount of information should be uncovered for a planned use. An information-as-a-service strategy is about making data or information easier to eat up all through the organization.

5.3 Justifiable access

Only entity who have an upheld utilization of the information contained in a digital personality and have a trusted in character relationship with the owner of the information may be offered access to that information.

5.3.1 Content Management - assemble predictable and reusable services for integrated substance.

5.3.2 Business Intelligence - Analytics and Data Warehousing services to decide encounters that give you a high ground.

5.3.3 Database Services - manage, share and secure relational data using demonstrated database management frameworks.

5.3.4 Information Integration - enable real-time, integrated access to business information regardless of location or format by giving a broad arrangement of information integration capabilities to semantically align information across disparate sources.

6. Security and Techniques

Information as a service would ought to have the choice to manage cloud relationships, understand security strategies and techniques, realize how to handle info and administer privacy, give an event reaction, archive, and allow for the framework to be addressed, all to a level that can be captured in a Service Level Agreement.

For Instance: Once a scan is done, SOA outfits you with information on each framework it scanned, including Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating framework, installed applications, and, clearly, vulnerabilities.

A. Hard disk file(s):

Reports that contain any information which would normally be contained inside a physical hard disk.

B. In-memory file(s):

A report that contains information that is in memory for the running VM and that will be centered around the hard disk records when the virtual machine is shut down.

C. Other files:

Reports that contain logs and other virtual machine-related information.

Information as a Service is an instance of Information Technology. Thus, an Information as a Service is a part of an Information as a Service. The subsequent activity right now individuals. This term must be subbed by the term agent, which could be an administrator and/or a customer. A User could be a customer and/or supplier. In addition, an agent might be a human or a machine. The interaction is that an Information as a Service, which gathers (recoups), manages (structures) and stores the data / information / information (maybe with the assistance of an administrator), serves this data/information/information to a customer.

A model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable preparing assets online-based enrolling, where shared assets, data and information are given to PCs and various devices & resources on-demand. The automated scaling audience chooses when to redirect solicitations to cloud-based IT assets, and asset replication is used to maintain synchronicity between on-reason and cloud-based IT assets in relation to state information.

You may have lots of data in your endeavor and no easy way to integrate and access it. If you are adopting SOA, integrating and accessing your data is a major part of succeeding. With an information transport, making accurate, steady data available to the individuals who need it is greatly streamlined.

The naming an organization of the data in the XML record and making it easier for the business to take up by standardizing the names of the data things into accepted business terms and organized in ways that are meaningful and accommodating for the business. The fact of the matter is that data is typically named and organized in hot-spots to support the data integration or fundamental data storage innovation, not to assist the purchaser. For what reason shouldn't the client see that data named even more meaningfully? Say, something like CustomerID?

Information as a service is appropriate for any organization that has various data sources and diverse eating up applications. In case your organization is small and you have one database and one main application, at that point information as a service may not make sense. In any case, if your small organization is in a rapidly creating market or you would like to be acquired by or to acquire another organization, the information transport can make your business increasingly agile and logically genuine. Certainly, in case you have a many-to-many issue - many data sources and many eating up app.

The elevated level advantages are business transformation and improvement maximization through data consistency and agility. An information-as-a-service strategy is about making data or information easier to eat up all through the organization. That means lower time to arrangement, lower cost of progress, and lower total cost of ownership. At the moment that an application needs data, you never again have to assemble a solidated, data-access answer for address just its issues.

7. Key Features

Reduce costs related to infrastructure rationalization and migration by decoupling information from siloed information sources.
Reduce chance presentation through in line analytics and auditable data quality for hazard and compliance initiatives.
Generate and oversees authoritative master data records with shared metadata and data quality services for master data management.
Ensure predictable definitions, packaging, and governance of key business data.
Enable more business adaptability and increase IT asset profitability.
Increase the agility for business transformation by giving reusable information services, spanning organized and unstructured information that can be connected to applications, business procedures, and portals.
The requirement for an "Information Architect".*

There are key data displaying abilities that are part of creating valuable data services. It's somewhere close to physical source displaying and endeavor data demonstrating and is a combination of expertise in understanding relational ideas like columns and gets together with ability in contemplating data in logical terms. We locate that each organization has individuals with these aptitudes yet perhaps not the title of Information Architect or Data Architect. Information Infrastructure make it easy to manage and operate the data.

Information as a service is about finding those people and engaging them with an innovation. Information as a Service is this part of an Information System that serves data/ information/ information to clients and gathers it from its benefactors, to manage and store it by optionally utilizing administrators.

It supports data exchange and is guided by the rule that getting the correct information in the correct format to the perfect individuals in the correct manner at the ideal time is imperative for the achievement, usability and appropriateness of any data management platform which help to ensure data quality.

IaaS (Information as a Service) centers around giving bits of knowledge based on the analysis of handled data. In this case the client's business to-be-done is increasingly about thinking of their own decisions or in any event, "selling" an idea based on certain information. Additionally, IaaS clients would prefer not to or don't have the assets to process and analyze data. Rather they will exchange value for analysis from confided in parties. The IaaS (Information) business model is all about transforming data into information for clients who need something - and will pay for something - progressively tailored.

Simplifies Instance: I get two duplicates of a Visa offering from the same bank on the same day of the month. Why? Because they have two unique frameworks with data about me in them after one bank purchased the other. I simply discard them and wonder why the bank doesn't fix this. This bank has key business forms operating on various data. In the event that they adopted an information-as-a-service approach, there would be just one service to get accommodated, accurate client data from. So the strategy encourages you convey reliable, accurate, info to the organization.

IaaS (Information as a Service) isn't an innovation shift -, for example, a transition to increase the utilization of virtualization. Rather, it is an operational and organizational move to running IT like a business and enhancing IT creation for business utilization. IT organizations that adopt IaaS (Information as a Service) are well on the way to utilize the prescribed procedures for IT service management as characterized in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library. Enabling real-time, integrated access to business information regardless of location or format by giving a broad arrangement of information integration capabilities to semantically align information across disparate sources.

8. CONCLUSION

"Information as a Service" is a service which provides the knowledge/ data/ information in any way. It is any combination of data technology and people's activities utilizing that technology to support operations, management of the available resources, and decision-making. Giant organizations, industries, and companies which acquire and adhere IaaS (Information as a Service) infrastructure are well on the way to utilize the prescribed procedures for service management as characterized in the Information Technology.

Damn! Quite a lot of information at once, isn't it? Nevertheless I hope that you got a good impression of what is possible with implementation of Information Infrastructure in a company, organization, or Industry. If really like it or it may proved helpful to you anyhow, you are welcome to continue looking around on kartiktyagi.me and read even more exciting articles. You are welcome to write any unsettled questions in the comments! :)

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Do’s and Don’ts for freshmen (engineering graduate)

Kartik Tyagi — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:07:14 +0000

Before jumping on the do’s and don’ts, let me be clear that these facts and figures are thoroughly my ideas, thinking, and experience. Being a sophomore of B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, I’m a 3rd-year aspirant and I’m writing this blog after experiencing the first two years of graduation. I hope It’ll be helpful to you.

DO’s:-
• Develop an interest in Technology and Learning:- Being passionate about this field will make your learning things much easier and enjoyable. Learning should give you pleasure. Participate in events, attend Webinars and watch Techfests & broadcasts of Tech companies.
• Interact with your seniors:- You’ll meet vibrant kinds of seniors. Some who read only work on projects, some who are good in talks, some who are very good in some extracurricular activity etc. Interact with as many of them as possible. Everyone has his/her own experience.
• Read and write blogs: If you’re good at communication and writing, then you should start writing blogs and articles. Do starting work on writing Documentation, Research papers and your own Blogs. If you think you’re not good enough in writing and communication, then you should start it immediately. I’m telling you, this is the only and the most important thing which will take time to develop.
· Learn how to Google: You might be thinking, what a silly kind of advice it is! But believe me, you may think that’s easy but sometime you’ll find it frustrating when you’ll not get what you want. If you want to be a developer or anything, then you should know where to search for what.
· Make connections which real teachers: The teachers teaching you, may or may not be the real teachers. Most of the teachers are just employees, they don’t know what they’re teaching as they never practice the subjects they teach. The real teachers are one who actually done and achieved the things which you want to achieve. Make the connections with a developer working for companies, tech talkies, corporate employees and most of all your seniors.
· Explore everything possible: I’ve found most of my junior to a hacker. And when I ask why most of them have the same answer ‘I’ll hack universities’ website and will increase marks; or will hack FB/IG accounts’. Dear new aspirants, be a little practical ASAP. It is good to be determined in a specifics field but you should taste everything.
· Develop small habits: Like, learn an algorithm, solve a coding problem daily, write a blog once in a week, learn at least two vocabularies daily and must-read about new any new Start-up/company once a month at least. “Developing habits means Developing yourself”.

DONT’s:-
• Don’t be a nerd every time:- Don’t be over-enthusiasm. Do search and learn things by yourself as much as possible. If stuck, only then ask for help/guidance. Explore everything but not all the time. Like explore things to get the right direction, but don’t get lost in between.
• Don’t lose focus: Be focused on why are you here at this University, what you want to achieve. Be in touch which keeps you motivate (not over motivated). Extra curriculum activities are good but you need to be focused at the same time.
• Don’t be afraid of failures:- You’ve opted engineering not just to pass exams and get good grades. You’re here to learn something. It’s easy to learn guide books and score well in exams but it’ll not help you at all in the future. It’s completely fine if you are not at the top of your batch. You’ve already conquered something which many few could do. Crave for knowledge, be passionate and keep learning.
• Don’t be an unknown unpaid employee of someone else: Sometimes you may feel like you’re contributing to someone's works, helping them, enhancing your overall skills, etc. but hey! Try to see the big picture. Most of the things are not the same as we think they’re. People always try to use your skills for their own sake of interest and you’ll get that later. That’s why I mentioned- don’t be ‘unknown’ and ‘unpaid’ employee. ‘Never do the things for free in which you’re good at’. Be creative and be clever.
• Do not get dizzy with money: Knowledge comes first, then money. It is good to learn about money (like Robert T. Kiyosaki said in his book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’), but you should learn which thing is important at first for a long jump (Knowledge or Money). First learn, then earn.

That’s all. Thanks for reading this. I hope you got what you want. Feel free to connect for any queries.