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Posts in 2020

  • 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 …

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  • Cognito and users with the unique email

    Friday, May 15, 2020 in Public Cloud

    Issue: duplicate emails in Cognito You would expect to receive an error trying to sign up an account with an email address that is already verified and attached to another account. Reality If you use “username” login and “allow …

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  • Dev environment on Windows

    Tuesday, May 12, 2020 in Public Cloud

    Why use Windows? Cause your Mac or Linux is on repair. In my case, my Mac is getting a free screen replacement, and the other old PC I have has one of those new BIOS with non breakable password, and CMOS is not accessible (loser alert!!!). Other …

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  • ZSH Shell Script for quick Git Commit and Push

    Monday, May 11, 2020 in Public Cloud

    Issue: Repetitive manual git stuff I’ve been using some Git Repos where my environments are called dev and master. First thing that comes to mind - automation!. Some times I make a pretty small correction, and I want to push it to master …

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  • Upgrade AWS CDK

    Thursday, May 07, 2020 in Public Cloud

    Why? Because AWS CDK is still a work in progress, and if you don’t keep it up to date, you’ll end up doing a major version upgrade, and won’t be able to recover your projects. How? Quite simple actually, if you don’t forget …

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  • On Multi Cloud

    Thursday, May 07, 2020 in Public Cloud

    How we got to “the age of Multi-Cloud” For years now we’ve been hearing, mostly from CMP (Cloud Management Platform) and traditional Data Center Hardware/Software Vendors, that the Multi Cloud means: I can “move” my …

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  • On future of Kubernetes

    Wednesday, May 06, 2020 in Playing Smart

    How we got to “the age of Kubernetes” For decades we ran our critical applications on physical servers, and life was good. Simple. Then we reached the Virtual Machine era. Provisioning a virtual machine on same physical machine saved us a …

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  • Migrating Blogger to Hugo + Docsy + AWS Amplify

    Friday, April 24, 2020 in Public Cloud

    Why move from Blogger I’ve been blogging about Technology since 2010. Some you might even know the previous version of Mats Cloud. Blogger is all right, BUT - the speed of static site generators combined with the flexibility and universality of …

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  • AWS Amplify - Hugo Version error

    Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Public Cloud

    Environment While building the new Hugo web site (this web, actually), to migrate my Blogger blog, mostly to get benefits of the brilliant zero effort CI/CD, I’ve decided to go with AWS Amplify. It’s just awesome. My technology stack is: …

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