Posts in 2020
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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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AWS CDK: How to use CfnResource or Cfn Layer
Saturday, April 18, 2020 in Public Cloud
What is AWS Cloud Development Kit? If you’ve been in the world of AWS long enough, you’ve probably heard of CloudFormation (duh!) and AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit). If you haven’t - you should! Trust me, it’s awesome!!! AWS …
Posts in 2019
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How failing VCDX changed my life
Sunday, December 01, 2019 in Playing Smart
I started my professional career in 2003, in a NOC (Network Operations Center), making sure that Network and Security services of the VIP customers of the ISP (Internet Service Provider) ran smoothly. Till 2013, I mostly worked on big Network and …