Studying for an AWS Certification may seem like an arduous task, especially if one isn’t expecting to take any more tests now that college is finally over. However, the certification doesn’t have to be long and tedious—it can be accomplished in as little as three months or less. I had started working in the middle […]
DevOps at Longtail UX
Longtail UX is an Australian SaaS startup that boosts traffic to e-commerce sites by automating the selection of relevant long-tail search terms and the creation of custom landing pages for each of those terms. The company has fully embraced the Infrastructure-as-Code approach, according to Troy Jendra, senior systems architect at Longtail UX. By using Terraform […]
Waging a Winning WAR in AWS
Above all other security advice for enterprises working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), there is one resounding war cry: “Go to WAR.” WAR is an acronym meaning Well-Architected Review. It’s a powerful and proactive way to mitigate real risk with the AWS team and its partners. If you’re using AWS (or thinking about it) consider […]
AWS Applies Machine Learning to Optimize Cloud Deployments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at its re:Invent 2019 conference unfurled two tools based on machine learning algorithms to optimize cloud application deployments. Amazon CodeGuru is a service available as a preview, through which the cloud service provider will inspect application code using machine learning algorithms to profile the code and then identify bottlenecks […]
Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey. If you think about cost only in terms of how much you are paying and what you are getting in […]
Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term
Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they’ll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such as […]
How Organizations Benefit from AWS App Patterns
As a startup, an organization thrives by breaking rules, challenging the status quo and standing for all that is against the norm. The same rules don’t apply once the same organization grows, matures, becomes popular, gains a long list of clients and expands to a global footprint. With scale and growth comes the need for […]
The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud penetration grew from 24% (in 2014) to 86% of organizations today. Last year, that adoption rate was 81%. Yet, while cloud has helped […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
How to Transition to Become a DevOps Engineer
You’ve either heard the buzzword or you’ve seen the extensive list of rewarding aspects that come with being a DevOps engineer. Whatever the reason you’re here, this guide should help with taking the right steps toward becoming a DevOps engineer, whether this is your first job after graduating or an opportunity to reskill leveraging your […]
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