Cloud

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.

Seems like everyone is clammoring for DevOps folks. Do they really know what they want? That term means all things to all people. Some thoughts.

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.

You will get the most bang for the buck from cloud by destroying it.

GitHub Actions can be for more than CI/CD. You can also use them to just simply publish to S3.

Back in January of 2018 I blogged on LinkedIn asking the question if golang would enable development of micro-kernels.

What actually is Solution Architecture? How do you build and manage an Architecture team? Can you take a software approach to that?

Everyone is all on fire about SRE. But what is it really? It’s as easy as 1-2-3 if you boil it down to the basics.

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?

Book review - free “Blowing up the Monolith” book from Kong.

What exactly is Cloudy DevOps? How do you go from classic data center Enterprise deployments to the cloud? Here’s some of what I’ve learned across a half-dozen teams who’ve done it.

On Becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)

Thoughts on AWS re:Invent 2018

Golang Enabling Unikernels?

Technology Rolls On, Better Roll With It

How To Do Devops?