Hi, I'm Cole. I'm a Software and DevOps Engineer based out of Los Angeles, CA teaching what I know as I go! This is a log of my Tech Guides and Thoughts. Thanks for reading!
If you've followed me for any length of time, then you know that I think learning AWS CloudFormation is great investment of time. In case you don't know what it is, this service / tool allows you to create entire infrastructures on AWS with nothing but a sim…
Table of Contents Introduction What Are We Doing? The Video: Transforms Next Steps The Complete CloudFormation Guide Index Introduction So here we are with our second to last piece of our template: Transform. Like it was with Mapping, we won't be usin…
If you'd like to trigger a room full of developers and operators, go in and tell them that they need container orchestration. Or tell them they don't need it. Either way, you'll begin a bloody war filled with snarky comments, long-winded anecdotes, and essa…
Table of Contents Introduction Problems with Hosting Directly on EC2 Instances Docker: The Problem Solver Containers Final Thoughts on Docker Watch Instead of Read on Youtube Other Posts in This Series Introduction The architecture of our conceptu…
Table of Contents Introduction Servers on AWS: EC2 and its Instances Separating the Database: RDS and Aurora Server Fleets: Tackling the Scaling Issue Load Balancers: Directing Traffic Conclusion Watch Instead of Read on Youtube Other Posts in T…
In the content I create, I primarily teach things (with the occasional rant), but in this post I'm going to be covering something that hopefully will help you teach yourself: my process for learning things. Specifically, how I learn new technologies such as…
Table of Contents Introduction What Do You Need To Know? Our Learning Scenario What Kind of App Does This Work For? First Things First - A Productive Development Environment What Technologies Should We Use With It? What Makes A Good Environment?…
Today I'm releasing a full YouTube course that's the perfect starting point for AWS and DevOps journey: AWS EC2 Fundamentals! In this course we get into the bread and butter of AWS by learning all about its server-making service EC2, aka Elastic Cloud Compute…