AWS

Tl;dr: The AWS Cookbook is a must have addition to your reference library. Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author.

Telephony made a huge leap forward last week. It’s insanely easy to build a voice chatbot for phone calls!

“Cattle, not Pets!” they say. Except that for a lot of development, coders make their own laptop their favorite pet. “It works on my machine!” becomes normal. I got tired of that and automated the creation of my dev environment..

A month ago I told you I changed roles at AWS. Now I can show you what I’ve done since then!

The only constant is change! And… sometimes things come full circle. I’m changing roles at AWS. Back to the Future!

Progress, but not where I want it to be. But it builds and installs the FreeRTOS AWS IoT demo.

A few quick notes on getting the AWS IoT C SDK running on Linux.

Dipping a toe into the FreeRTOS ESP32 world.

Just started playing with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

This week I passed the AWS SysOps Administrator (Associate) Exam. Here’s some notes on what I did to prepare, and observations of the process.

As 2020 thankfully winds down, I leave Cisco and join AWS.

Can I replace a local Prometheus with AWS CloudWatch? And include syslog monitoring as well? Yes, I can. But it was a PITA to set up. Here’s how.

In AWS the AMI ID for a particular VM image is unique to that region. But it’s name is consistent across AWS. When building infra-as-code (such as terraform) use the name, not the ID. And some musings on terraform. Is it still the right answer for infra-as-code?

Think self-driving technology requires deep pockets to play with? Think again. AWS DeepRacer and Autoware are the leading edges of self-driving automation for the maker.

On Becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)

Thoughts on AWS re:Invent 2018