Why you should build to learn
The Challenge
Do you know about A Cloud Guru’ challenges?
This time the “My Resume in Azure” one hit me in the middle of my afternoon. I was going for a break after two productive hours when I saw the Gwyneth Peña S. post.
I’ll quickly have a look…
The goal is to publish a personal website, your online resume, based on Azure technologies and practice your Cloud skills in the process. You can see it as a hands-on lab where you need to do your research in order to make it happen.
I had very little experience building with Azure even…
Getting started with AWS Copilot
Copilot my friend
Everyone loves the command line right?
Ok, at least if you regularly work with automation, pipelines, security… you do.
Everyone should love command lines!
It’s the way to go to automate any strategic or boring task, removing the human factor from the equation and minimizing the error margin.
In this article, I will introduce you to AWS Copilot, and I’m sure you are going to become best friends in an instant!
Then we will prepare you to start the journey with a quick demo. Demos are like breakfast before hiking, right?
It prepares you just enough to be motivated enough…
A quick guide to starting your journey with AWS.
If you have already heard about “The Cloud” and are curious about how to gain some knowledge about it, you are clearly in the right place! In this article, I am going to give you some advice and resources to help you start learning in an efficient way.
Because everyone needs to start somewhere, I’m going to take the AWS example. But some of the following content is also applicable to other providers.
Follow me through the pretty Cloud beginner pathway!
The strategy
AWS has hundreds of services available and they are able to release at least the same amount every year…
When to use each of these AWS services.
I recently reviewed my classics about AWS Kinesis services and I wanted to share this digest with you.
So, no more boring introduction stuff, let’s start!
Kinesis Data Stream
🛠 Workflow
- Producer (Kinesis Producer Library, API via SDK)
- Kinesis Data Stream
- Consumer (EC2, Lambda, EMR, Kinesis Data Analytics)
- Storage/Analysation (S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, BI Tools…)
💡 Benefits
- Data retention
- Real-time
🧪 Use cases
- Analyze logs in real-time
- Transform real-time streaming data and fed it to a custom ML application
Kinesis Data Firehose
🛠 Workflow
- Producer
- Kinesis Data Firehose
- Processing tool (optional: Lambda)
- Storage (S3, Redshift…)
- Additional steps (send an event from S3 to DynamoDB table)
💡 Benefits
- Collect streaming data and send to datastore
🧪 Use cases
- Delivery service for streaming…
Ladies and gentlemen, the new not so innovative AWS browser shell!
And here is another announcement from AWS re:Invent 2020! Join me to get a tour…
This time, I admit, it is not so innovative.
But not being the most amazing innovation of the century is not really an issue if the need is here.
Moreover, if people all around the Clouds would wait for a fundamental useful feature, this feature would surely be AWS CloudShell!
Let’s get to know better this little guy…
A Shell in the Cloud
The tool is browser-based. Just open the AWS console and check it at the top, next…
AWS recently announced a new service: AWS Proton.
As I love to have a look at the new features provided by the AWS re:Invent, I wrote this article summarizing my findings.
AWS Proton is a tool to help with infrastructure automation and code deployments.
But it is not another CodePipeline because the tool is more designed for organizational purposes.
This service makes it easy for infrastructure teams to centralize and standardize classic infrastructure patterns so that they can be available for developers to deploy their code.
And this why it should be seen as an organizational tool.
It supports the…
Trucks, space, video games, and more
No big introduction today because it is not needed!
You probably know that Amazon Web Services provides a lot of services.
Let me present you five you probably don’t know a lot about.
Snowmobile
This is the day to understand I write for my good reasons
Did you want, at some point in your life, to start writing articles?
I felt like this a few times already. Having some thoughts to write down in order to keep them alive, to expand them and to share the result with people…
There is no secret here, that’s the main reason I started blogging a few month ago.
At the beginning, I didn’t really have any idea of what I was willing to achieve.
The secret ingredient happens when step by step, I sharpened my vision and progressed in the understanding of what type of content I wanted to share. I…
The best way to start your Cloud journey in Azure
Do you want to learn what Cloud is ?
Or maybe you already have an idea but you would like to get better and be able to showcase your knowledge.
Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals certification path is a perfect start.
After exploring a lot AWS Services, I felt the need to have a better understanding of other Cloud providers. This certification is interesting to have a first overview of the Microsoft Azure services. You will learn the basic Cloud principles as well as how you can find them in Azure.
In this article, I will help you understand how to pass the AZ-900 certification and some of the benefits…
Why you should not run into code as a first step
When you have a new idea, you don’t want to lose it !
And when this idea is a web or mobile application, you probably don’t want to spend two weeks trying to build it. And then find out that it’s not really what you want.
I was in this situation a few days ago and I tried to find out what tools I could use to have a basic prototype. I wanted to make a support to be able to show and discuss my idea with other people.
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Florian Clanet
Software Eng. for Sopra Steria | Cloud architect | Lighting design enthusiast https://twitter.com/FlolightC
