The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 27, 2020.

Join me as I continue a new series called Whiteboard Confessional by focusing on the wild world of databases and touching upon three-tiered web apps, how scaling an app to 200 million users is a massive challenge, the time Corey’s boss suggested running a database on top of NFS, why modern cloud architecture is a much better approach than using NFS, the genesis of why Corey tends to see many things as a database (ahem, Route 53), why you should avoid NFS for greenfield designs, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 20, 2020.

Join me as I continue a new series called Whiteboard Confessional with a look at the rise of microservices and some of the reasons why people started breaking apart monoliths in the first place, why microservices can be a great approach to software development, how Hacker News took the wrong lessons from microservices and encouraged devs from 15-person startups to embrace them at their own peril, why Google would argue that its own internal systems shouldn’t look like Google’s internal systems, how microservices make platforms much harder to scale, why you shouldn’t necessarily hop on the latest software development trends just because, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 13, 2020.

Join me as I continue a new series called Whiteboard Confessional with a look at the importance of the T-shaped engineer and how they can drive lots of revenue, where T-shaped engineers fall short, how becoming an expert in one specific tool can be a good thing at first but will almost certainly cause problems down the road (e.g., when you leave the company), how technologies like serverless and Kubernetes are the zeitgeist of today and why that may end up hurting companies tomorrow, who the worst developer Corey’s ever come across is, why you should think twice about pushing your favorite tools on the rest of your team, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 6, 2020.

Join me as I continue a new series called Whiteboard Confessional by exploring a time in a previous life when Amazon ElastiCache for Redis caused an outage that led to drama, what it was like to work for someone who can be described as a “metaphor-spewing poet,” how every event and issue makes sense in retrospect, why you should never schedule important maintenance on a weekend, how Amazon ElastiCache for Redis works, the four contributing factors that led to the outage in question, why blameless post mortems are only blameless if you have that kind of culture driven from the top, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30, 2020.

Join me as I continue a new series called Whiteboard Confessional by examining the monstrosity that is Console Recorder. In this episode, I discuss why Ian Mckay is a code terrorist, the four tiers of building something in AWS, the ins and outs of Console Recorder, why there are always two versions of a Google project, the story behind Console Recorder, including who built it and why that’s impressive, how GCP has a bit of an advantage over AWS in this arena, why you should give Console Recorder a try, and more.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 23, 2020.

Join me as I continue a new series called Whiteboard Confessional by examining the dark underbelly of configuration management: configuration mismanagement. In this episode, I discuss what it was like to be a very early developer on the SaltStack project, the secret to giving exceptional public talks, how tools like Docker have essentially rendered configuration management obsolete, one of my most common career tips, why I no longer talk about configuration management with most people, and more.