Week 5 - Setting Up Backend

   It’s crazy to think we’re already at Week 5, which is more than halfway through the internship. It honestly feels like just yesterday we were getting started, figuring out our tools and meeting the team. Now, heading into Week 6, I realize how much I have learned and how much there still is to learn.

    This week especially reminded me of the Dunning-Kruger effect: the more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know. What I learned during this internship has taught me invaluable technical, business, and even teamwork skills. By opening up your knowledge to these sectors, you understand the difficulties that arise when establishing a start-up and how constantly changing requirements can make it challenging to have a set game plan. 

    The primary focus this week was getting the videos displayed from the cloud on the website. The most challenging part was setting up everything, ensuring proper permissions were granted. I learned a lot about  the Google Cloud platform and tried to consider the requirements that we need to meet to allow for the Web-Portal to fetch data from the cloud. I was able to succeed; however, there a still a lot of things we need to consider for future implementation and design. 

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