J Cole Morrison

J Cole Morrison

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!


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The Complete CloudFormation Guide

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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…

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The Complete CloudFormation Guide: Transforms

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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…

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From Plain Machines to Container Orchestration: A Complete Explanation

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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…

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Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: Docker and Containers

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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…

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Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: Server Fleets and Databases

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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…

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My Process for Learning New Technology Skills

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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…

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Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: A Concepts Series

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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?…

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EC2 Fundamentals - A Project Based Learning Course on YouTube

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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…