Category Archives: Technology

Apple M1

It’s been in the rumor mill for some time but finally in November 2020 Apple made the official announcement – Apple Introduced the M1 processor and the very first batch of hardware based on it.

Not exactly sure what all the advantages of the new chip is, but I do feel it is here to stay. And with that I went ahead and got myself a laptop running the new M1 processor. It’s a MacBook Air with 16 Gb of memory and 500 Gb of flash storage. My initial plan is to avoid the Rosetta Translation Environment – as long as I can. I am running into a few issues and am trying to find workarounds. We’ll see how far I get.

– manzoor

Cloud Storage – Amazon S3 vs Google Cloud Storage

I find myself at an interesting crossroad – for the first time I am considering Web Services from someone other than Amazon AWS. To be fair, I do find myself at this position because for the first time I am the one making these technological choices as opposed to being handed choices that were already made.

I have always wanted to try other services and this is the perfect situation.

I am choosing to deploy my react app on GCP with Firebase and will try to use both S3 and Google Cloud Storage to be able to compare.

– manzoor

  • Four critical differences between Google Cloud Storage AND Amazon S3 APIS
  • Google Cloud Storage vs. Amazon S3