Posts in 2024
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Platform Engineering
Saturday, February 03, 2024 in Blog
“Enterprise IT” can be slow and expensive Due to how Data Center operations work, most enterprises built a “cost efficient” operating centers. In some cases, it’s partly or completely outsourced. To make operations cost …
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IT Asset Inventory
Saturday, January 20, 2024 in Blog
Your IT Inventory a hot mess. Here is why In the 90s, along with ITIL, came a concept of CMDB, that kinda solved the infrastructure inventory problem… but CMDB was destined for failure from the start, mostly because the only mechanism to ensure the …
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Cloud Resilience
Sunday, January 07, 2024 in Blog
How to make your business not be mad about the DOWNTIME “Everything Fails all the time”, to cite Dr Warner Wogles, CTO of Amazon. DOWNTIME costs MONEY, in both churn and and “lost sales”. As an IT professional, you need to …
Posts in 2022
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cloud networking evolution
Thursday, May 05, 2022 in Blog
How we operate the Network today Network is important. Speed, Bandwidth, latency and delay will have a crucial impact on your app performance. Change in a network architecture can have a critical impact, or even cause an outage. This is why the …
Posts in 2021
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100 Days of Code
Saturday, February 06, 2021 in Blog
Why do the 100 Days Challenge I started my career in 2005 as a Network Engineer. 2010 I added Data Center and Virtualization to my skills. Then came Automation and Scripting. My last 10 years, summarized: Private Cloud (ex. OpenStack) - tried it, …
Posts in 2020
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AWS most important services
Tuesday, September 01, 2020 in Blog
So, you want to be an AWS Expert? AWS has been around for a long time… even though people don’t feel that way, as we spent the last 15 years trying to convince ourselves that Private Clouds are Ok, and that we should utilize all that …
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3 tips for Cloud Operations
Thursday, August 20, 2020 in Blog
So, you’ve decided to move your workloads to Cloud? Deploying/Migrating production workloads to a Public Cloud is the “new black” of the industry. Everyone is doing it. Why? To improve reliability, reduce Infrastructure CapEx, …
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CDK with AWS SSO
Thursday, June 25, 2020 in Blog
Issue: We can’t use CDK with Multiple AWS Accounts and AWS SSO AWS Cloud Development Kit, which I’ve been using since 2019, supports: Multiple Environments. Multiple Regions. Multiple AWS Accounts. However, if you’re using AWS SSO …
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Low Cost NAT Gateway
Thursday, June 11, 2020 in Blog
Issue with AWS NAT Gateway A few years ago AWS announced the managed NAT Gateway service. The Pros are obvious - you get Internet connectivity for your Private Subnets without having to manage and operate the NAT EC2 Instances. Our Servers need …
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How to destroy always-at-a-meeting dynamics
Friday, May 15, 2020 in Playing Smart
Why work feels like chaos I’ve had this feeling for far too long. My entire team, me included, are always at the meetings. And when we do get some time to dedicate to real work, we get interrupted by emails, chat, or people just approaching and …