You have a map of the frozen lake. Every crack in the ice, every slippery patch, every hole is marked. You can sit at your desk and plan the perfect route before stepping foot on the ice. That is value iteration. Now imagine you have no map. You lace up your boots and start walking. You slip, you fall into holes, you backtrack. But each time you learn a little more about which moves pay off and wh
Confession: I’m not a walking dictionary. If you test me on textbook IT definitions, I might fail. After transitioning through Law and Banking into Tech, I’ve realized that terminology is often just a high-tech "smoke screen" for professional ego. But for many of us, the problem is deeper: it's about the language of logic itself. In my first year of Law school, I spent nights memorizing the "Theor
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed