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Azure Certifications in 2026: A Complete Roadmap from AZ-900 to Expert

How Microsoft's Azure certifications are organised, which one suits your role, costs and free renewals, and an 8-week plan to pass AZ-900.

ConfidentHire Academy Updated Oct 16, 2026
Certification Microsoft Azure Azure Cloud Computing
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A Brief History of Java: From Oak to Java 27

A short tour of Java's history, from the Green Project and Oak in 1991 to Java 27 in 2026: the key releases, the move to open source, the Oracle era and modern Java.

Debajyoti Nath Updated Oct 16, 2026
Programming Java JVM OpenJDK
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AWS Certifications in 2027: A Complete Roadmap from Cloud Practitioner to Professional

Which AWS certification should you take first, and what comes next? The four levels, who each exam suits, costs and validity, and an 8-week plan for Cloud Practitioner.

ConfidentHire Academy Updated Oct 16, 2026
AWS Certification Cloud Computing Cloud
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Object-Oriented Programming in Python

Object-oriented programming in Python: classes, __init__, methods, inheritance, super(), __str__, and dataclasses.

@llaxmikant Updated Oct 13, 2026
Programming Python OOP
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Angular Nested Components with Signal Inputs and Outputs

In Angular 22 a parent passes data to a nested child with signal inputs, input(), and the child reports back with signal outputs, output(). With model(), viewChild() and @for.

@llaxmikant Updated Oct 8, 2026
Frontend Angular TypeScript Components
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Functions in Python: Arguments, Return Values, and Scope

Define Python functions: parameters, return values, defaults, *args and **kwargs, scope, docstrings, and type hints.

@llaxmikant Updated Oct 1, 2026
Functions Python Programming Beginners
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Production Readiness on AWS: Secrets, Blue/Green and Rollback

Secrets management, blue/green releases with automatic rollback, resilience, backups, cost control and a go-live checklist.

Manish Mishra Updated Sep 24, 2026
Security AWS DevOps Deployment
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Control Flow in Python: Conditionals and Loops

Conditionals and loops in Python: if/elif/else, for and while, break and continue, with FizzBuzz and a guessing game.

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 23, 2026
Beginners Python Programming
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Python Collections: Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries

Lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries in Python: how each works, when to use it, and how comprehensions help.

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 20, 2026
Data Structures Beginners Programming Python
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Observability on AWS: CloudWatch, Alarms, Prometheus and Grafana

Structured logs, Logs Insights, the four golden signals, alarms that matter, tracing with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus on EKS.

Manish Mishra Updated Sep 19, 2026
Monitoring CloudWatch AWS DevOps
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Working with Strings and Text in Python

Work with Python strings: indexing and slicing, immutability, the most useful methods, f-strings, and formatting.

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 18, 2026
Python Programming Beginners Strings
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Variables, Numbers, and Types in Python

Understand variables, dynamic typing, numbers, booleans, None, type conversion, and Python's arithmetic operators.

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 15, 2026
Programming Python Beginners
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Kubernetes on Amazon EKS: Deploying and Comparing with ECS

Create an EKS cluster with Terraform, deploy with probes and resource requests, package with Helm and choose between ECS and EKS.

Manish Mishra Updated Sep 14, 2026
EKS Kubernetes AWS DevOps
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Running Containers on Amazon ECS with Fargate

Production-ready images, task definitions, the two IAM roles, ALB integration, safe rolling deployments and autoscaling on ECS.

Manish Mishra Updated Sep 9, 2026
Docker DevOps AWS ECS
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Getting Started with Python: Install, Run, and Your First Program

Install Python, use the REPL and script files, and write your first program with print(), comments, and input().

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 8, 2026
Programming Beginners Tutorial Python
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CI/CD with GitHub Actions to Amazon ECR Using OIDC

A complete GitHub Actions pipeline that tests, builds and pushes container images to ECR with no stored AWS credentials.

Manish Mishra Updated Sep 4, 2026
GitHub Actions AWS DevOps CI/CD
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Setting Up an Angular Development Environment

To set up an Angular 22 development environment you need three things: a supported Node.js LTS runtime, the Angular CLI installed globally (npm install -g…

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 3, 2026
TypeScript Tooling Frontend Angular
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Angular in Visual Studio Code

To build Angular 22 apps in Visual Studio Code, install Node.js LTS and the Angular CLI (npm install -g @angular/cli), scaffold a project with ng new my-app,…

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 3, 2026
VS Code Frontend Angular TypeScript
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Angular Directives and Control Flow

Angular directives are classes that add behavior to elements in your templates, and there are three kinds: components (directives with a template), attribute…

@llaxmikant Updated Sep 3, 2026
Frontend Angular Directives TypeScript
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