Starting a new Journey AWS
Simon Sinek has a great talk - about how great leaders inspire great action. I learned something really important from this talk even through it is almost 10 years old. By explaining things in the …
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I dabble in AWS every now and again :) and a new book just came out - so obviously I wanted to go through it and give it a read. Mastering AWS Cost Optimization: Real-world technical and operational …
(Not) Real Scientific Proof that AMI has 3syllables
AWS has 26, (yes) I counted them, different products with exactly 3 letters in them (or derivatives of) - lets go through them one at a time. A-C-M AWS Certificate Manager - Is not pronounced ac-em …
The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce
Now that I have got your attention with a catchy title - let me share with some of my thoughts regarding how AWS shines and how much your experience as a customer matters. Deploying instances in the …
The Anatomy of an AWS Key Leak to a Public Code Repository
Many of us working with any cloud provider know that you should never ever commit access keys to a public github repo. Some really bad things can happen if you do. AWS (and I assume all the cloud …
My awesome-podcasts List
I have a decent commute every day back and forth to work and I have come to enjoy listening to a number of podcasts throughout the week. I will try and keep the list up to date - here As of today - …
AMI has #3Syllables. A.M.I. AWS
Just to make this clear (before someone get’s the wrong idea…) This 100% fun. Humor. Not religion. Not a mission. Just having some fun at the expense of AWS.. If you follow me on Twitter …
Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish
Back in July 2018, I started to write a blog post about the upcoming death of Docker as a company (and also perhaps as a technology) but I never got round to completing and publishing the post. It is …
Separate VPC's can do More Harm Than Good
I have come across this a number of times of the past couple of months. Environments that were born in the datacenter, have grown in the datacenter - in short people who are used to certain (shall we …
Empires are not built in a day (but they also do not last forever)
I am currently on vacation in Rome (my first time) and during this trip I came to a number of realizations that I would like to share with you. I went to the Colosseum today - and I have to say I was …