Technology and Information Systems Reflections
Firstly, I was delighted to meet a group of people who fully cooperated with me. I learned many topics associated with the 4th Industrial Revolution from the group assessments, like the Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, etc. These topics may help me know more about the 4th Industrial Revolution, improve my life quality and use it in my future career. Besides that, group assessments also let me know the importance of teamwork. If the collaboration didn’t exist strongly, the assignment and project could not be done smoothly on time.
I was pleased to interview our customer to obtain the problem from him for the project part. This interview can improve my communication skills when communicating with the public. In other that, I am also enabled to use what I learned inside the project, which is the AWS service that I learned from the AWS Foundation course. I also can describe the benefits of using the AWS service and the functions of some services.
In my view, the AWS Foundation course is a very good thing that can let me learn more about cloud computing from Amazon Web Service. Cloud computing is very useful for any business, big or small. AWS can provide a low cost and effective cloud computing architecture for them. From this AWS course, I also learned about the services provided by AWS like Amazon Route 53, Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS and others. In addition, I also plan to take the certification exam to get the certificate about the AWS module, which can enhance my resume in my career time.
Industrial talk is the most important in this course because we can learn about the fourth industrial revolution. For example, the 4th IR brings the new invention for mobile communication to the 5th Generation (5G), which speed is faster than 4G. It can be used for another 4th IR technology like the Internet of Things and others. Next, I also learned how to make an online dashboard to show the public a set of data in various graphics like a bar graph, line graph, piechart, map and more. The data shown in the graphic type make our reader easily know about the statistics that my member and I discussed. In the talk, I also learned about Augmented Reality, the technology that transforms the 2D view into 3D views and enables testing in reality via our devices’ cameras.
Additionally, there is an AWS explanation talk before I ongoing the AWS Foundation Module online. I know about SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and why we need to use cloud computing. Then, the presenter also compares the cost of having a database on-premises and online. Both of the prices are totally different. The online database offered by Amazon Web Services is helping the merchant towards more smooth work progress.
During this semester, I gained a lot of knowledge about the computer components and the software we usually use in our daily lives, such as Microsoft Office, general-purpose applications and graphics programs, Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Premiere Pro. Besides that, I also know the difference between primary and secondary storage, which the secondary storage is non-volatile and permanent storage. For the primary storage, the data only will be stored when the devices are turned on and will delete when the devices are turned off. In addition, I also learned new knowledge from this course which is about the database and data analysis design. These chapters might help me in the future study plan and guide me during design and creating the program. In conclusion, I gained basic knowledge about computers, software, security, and others, which can help me clarify a certain topic in the future semester.