Welcome!

My name is Rodrigo Santos and this is my digital garden! Here I want to keep all things that I am learning about software development from frontend to infrastructure and hopefully I can help you with some insights.

What is a digital garden?

There is a really good article from Maggie Appleton describing it (Link). And quoting from this article:

A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.

That means that notes will keep being updated without caring that much about the publish date. I will try to keep them always fresh with the things I am learning.

How to navigate?

The structure of a Digital Garden is a bit different from blogs. Blogs organize the content by date and Digital Gardens organize it by context.

At the moment I didn't publish that many things, so it is quite easy to follow, but over time it will get more complex, so I am grouping the contexts using labels and links. Bellow each note you will find tags and if you click on them you will find more content:

Or if you just want to see a visual representation you can see it on the right side graph:

There are 3 icons on the left of the notes inform which level of maturity this note is:

• Seedling - I just started this note, there is a lot of things to be improved.
• Budding - There is some content working, but things might be a bit unorganised and with placeholder content.
• Evergreen - The note is in a good state, it covers a lot of content with examples and links pointing to other resources.

Who am I?

I am a fullstack developer currently living in Germany and working for Trade Republic. Recently I started to use Obsidian to organise myself and found the concept of Digital Gardens, which got me excited to create my own and make it public.

Recent Posts

This are the things I wrote recently:

• April 08, 2024:

  • Kafka (CCDAK)

• March 13, 2024:

  • C4 Diagrams

• February 23, 2024:

  • AWS Cost Optimisation

• February 22, 2024:

  • FinOps

• February 12, 2024:

  • Service Mesh

• February 02, 2024:

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

• January 02, 2024:

  • Staff engineer’s path

• October 31, 2023:

  • Building my golden project

• October 27, 2023:

  • How I got 3 certifications in 3 months
  • Obsidian - a simple but powerful learning tool

• October 10, 2023:

  • Prometheus