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Interesting Security Blogs
A couple of interesting security blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ https://shehackspurple.medium.com/

Tim Burns
Jan 13, 20211 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Jan 12, 20211 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Jan 7, 20211 min read
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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,...

Tim Burns
Jan 5, 20211 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Jan 4, 20211 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Dec 31, 20204 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Dec 23, 20201 min read
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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
Dec 18, 20201 min read
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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
Dec 17, 20201 min read
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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
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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Found a Good BI Tool
https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-spotfire/aws

Tim Burns
Dec 14, 20201 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Dec 10, 20204 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Dec 6, 20201 min read
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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
Dec 5, 20201 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Dec 3, 20201 min read
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Please use Cloud Formation - for Future You
Future you always hates it when you don't use Cloud Formation.

Tim Burns
Dec 2, 20201 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Nov 27, 20201 min read
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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

Tim Burns
Nov 25, 20201 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
Nov 18, 20201 min read
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Fake Data
Create some fake data to entertain your friends and family. https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ Actually, no one cares, but create...

Tim Burns
Nov 17, 20201 min read
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