This Machine Kills Fascists
My Work in the New Year Woodie Guthrie famously had "This Machine Kills Fascists" painted on his guitar. He stood up to Fascism whenever...
TALKING TO THE OWL
Exploring the Fascinating Details of Software, Nature, and Data
From nature to software - small details come together to make a grand design.
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Make DevOps your New Year's Resolution!
Diagram of the Full DevOps Lifecycle Continuous Automation is the Foundation of DevOps Building a DevOps Environment can be scary because...
After Certification - Start writing D&D
My Post Vaccine Goals - Play more D&D I'd like to write levels 1-10 campaigns in the Wildemount so when we all get COVID vaccines, I can...
There are cool people in Security
Take a moment to appreciate these tools. https://pgpkeygen.com/ https://onetimesecret.com/
BI versus Data Science
BI is easier because you are visualizing data with tools. Data Science is actionable because you are deep-diving into the data and...
Serverless 2020 Highlights
This dog cannot find his favorite fetch toy (where is it?) Lambda Functions Good point from the AWS presentation: Lambda responds to...
Found a Good BI Tool
https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-spotfire/aws
Automating Serverless Deployments with AWS CodeBuild
Photo by Shawn Lee on Unsplash I remember when DevOps was a new idea and a colleague said, "DevOps separates out the real developers." I...
Scrutinize Every Cost
Photo by Maria Hochgesang on Unsplash I worked for a $100 million company that restricted development team accounts to $100/month. At...
Scaling Takes Courage - Don't Settle for the Easy Option
Source: CloudGuru - Professional Architect Cert 2020 Very few organizations fill in the green cogs in the above picture. Why? It takes...
A Monk once Said - If you change code in deployment, stop
Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash Also from https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf Deploy using...
Please use Cloud Formation - for Future You
Future you always hates it when you don't use Cloud Formation.
Cloud Adoption Framework Friday
I'm spending the day making up time on my AWS certification. One challenge of an architect is having a mental model of how to build a...
Rhode Island used to be in Avalonia
Fun fact: Rhode Island was once in a continent of Avalonia, along with the UK and Ireland. Image Source: Malaga Bay
More data than you can shake a stick at
https://registry.opendata.aws/ It cost me $0.77 to query this data with Athena to find out the highest levels of Ozone in the US for a...
Fake Data
Create some fake data to entertain your friends and family. https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ Actually, no one cares, but create...
Runbooks and Playbooks
I've spent too long thinking of these terms interchangeably. Runbooks Tactical Formula to Address a Situation Describe a situation that...
It Begins: Mission AWS Architect Certification
I've decided to get AWS Architect Certified during this slow season of COVID isolation. I have a filled-out shell of a decent AWS stack...
Declarative or Imperative? Hmm...
I've become a master of the AWS SAM model which specifies the relationships declaratively. Now AWS CDK has come out and it could make...
It's Time to Change Dimensions
To everything there a season, and a time to every purpose, and let's keep track of those changes with a slowly changing dimension. What...
