Tim Burns
The AWS Solutions Architect Exam is a Marathon
Photo by Miguel A. Amutio on Unsplash The AWS Solutions Architect exam is a marathon. I had no idea what I was in for when I signed up...
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Tim Burns
A Door Opens and I feel Optimism and Hope
Photo by Jan Tinneberg on Unsplash I found out I’m leading up a new Scrum team at the same time many of us are getting vaccinated, going...
Tim Burns
When a Secret is No Longer a Secret
Least Privilege on Shared Systems Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Extending secure access on a heterogeneous system can be complex. One...
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Data Vault Model
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash Background on the Data Vault The Data Vault Model is useful when you have evolving dimensional star...
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Disaster Recovery Article Takeaways
Montparnasse Derailment I'm reading Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud. It's a great article! I'm struggling...
Tim Burns
Interesting Security Blogs
A couple of interesting security blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ https://shehackspurple.medium.com/
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Plan-Do-Check-Act
Image from PDCA - Wikipedia Walter Sherwart and W. Edwards Deming were two American engineers who founded modern statistical quality...
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JetBrains Security Breach
While I was hoping to spend a focused day on development and writing, I was greeted by this: Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry...
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Agile is the new Taylorism
I ran across an article in Medium that draws interesting parallels between Taylorism and modern Agile Scrum. Tobias Higbie The Labor Age,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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There are cool people in Security
Take a moment to appreciate these tools. https://pgpkeygen.com/ https://onetimesecret.com/
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
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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...
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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...
Tim Burns
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...
