To anticipate and prevent
Today was the first day (sans instructional courses) of the 4th annual AWS re:Invent conference. While I was unable to attend this year, I’ve been eagerly watching the streams and keeping an eye on the news feeds. There have been many product announcements leading up to re:Invent, but the “really good stuff” was kept for…
Amazon_Glacier During my last few visits to the AWS Popup loft, I really dug into my Amazon Web Services account, especially the billing. My bill had skyrocketed to over $5 a month! What had happened? How did I miss this huge spike in billing? Well, it turns out that a majority of that bill was…
AmazonWebservices_Logo.svg After last week’s Internet Of Things hack session, I became fascinated with all the fun IoT projects and technologies there are to play with. Everything you do, requires data to go into the cloud, so I figured I’d start there. In the hack series I learned how to push data into AWS Kinesis which…
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IMG_9199 Over a year ago, Amazon Web Services built their nifty Popup Loft in San Francisco. Since then they’ve hosted a ton of cool events, including a very regular series of all day, hands on labs. The labs are free, everything is provided, even lunch. There’s one critical issue (for most people): getting time off…
tf138ca_happy-derp-face-meme-i3 Recently I registered the domain “derp.army” and wanted to host a couple static pages on it, on the quick and cheap. Of course I have a server that works perfectly well, but the less complicated the infrastructure (or the less I have to run), the less headaches for me. The best solution for static…
For those of you who might stop by semi-regularly, you’ve not seen me post in about 4 months. In fact, I’ve not regularly posted since January of this year and John has been carrying the weight. Work has “kept me out of trouble” as they say, or more correctly just been insanely busy. When I’m…