DEV Community: Manasi Vora

Starting with a new cloud platform GCP

Manasi Vora — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:55:35 +0000

I started learning GCP after spending 4+ years with AWS.
The main constructs of the cloud or any infrastructure are always going to be the same. What's important is to understand the differences which allow you to build something more powerful in an easier way than what you have achieved on the earlier cloud. I was glad to have found this course - Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals for AWS Professionals

It gives a comparison of Google Cloud capabilities and makes it super easy to understand for someone who has knowledge of AWS's terminology and concepts.

In fact, such a course also helps in strengthening your AWS understanding. Now you are able to get a new perspective of the cloud that you know. It also talks about portability solution.

Cloud has proliferated so much that most of us have had some form of cloud experience. With Gen Y, they know cloud from very early on with their pictures, messages, documents and even college assignments stored there!

Every major cloud provider should have a starter documentation for developers who have some cloud experience.

After this course, I was able to continue hands on with additional GCP courses and POCs in qwiklabs.

Quick tips:

Make your own notes for every course/tutorial you study
Hands On: Don't skip the hands-on exercises assuming you know
Visit the course again after 2 weeks after skimming through your notes
Refer the main documentaion of GCP/AWS for latest version and details where needed
Plan a exercise/small solution to develop once the course is complete

Chromedriver vs phantomjs on selenium

Manasi Vora — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:24:39 +0000

While implementing selenium automation for one of the projects, we have evaluated casperjs, phantomjs, selenium and now selenium with chromedriver.
Of all of them chromedriver seems most robust and is the current favorite. Here are my reasons for using chromedriver:

Easy installation
phantomjs leaves too many stale processes and causes memory leaks. Not faced this issue with chromedriver
Requires centos 7. It has compatibility issues with centos 6
Multiple ChromeOptions() for finer control
Allows for automating browser download via a button click and 'save as' dialog box. phantomjs based selenium was unable to do it
All selenium WebDriver methods are available
Ongoing support. Supported and managed by Google - http://chromedriver.chromium.org/help This has allowed for creation of powerful web crawlers and bots!

Hi, I am Manasi

Manasi Vora — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 06:24:12 +0000