How to deal with information overload?

Disclaimer This post contains affiliate links. Introduction As you know, in Information Technology, things are evolving fast. Too fast to stay up to date without losing your mind to information overload/fatigue. To remediate that, I will give you my daily/weekly routine and tips to stay focused on your tasks/objectives without missing anything interesting, and to assimilate it at your own pace. Daily Routine Sign In In the morning, I鈥檓 reading my Brew. Mailbrew gives you the ability to craft your own newsletter based on your most interesting content, like tweets with the most engagement from your favorite Twitter accounts, Newsletters, most upvoted Sub-reddit posts, daily calendar schedule, most interesting Hacker News posts and so on. Crafted just by you and for you. ...

December 19, 2020 路 2 min 路 416 words 路 Victor Grenu

AWS Starter Kit - 2020 Edition

This post was updated in July 2020. It was originally my first post on this blog in December 2016. 馃懘 I鈥檓 often asked by many colleagues, friends, or Twitter followers where to start with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, I will try to explain where you should start in 2020. I鈥檒l try to write this post as I wish I had when I got into this technology in 2016. ...

July 10, 2020 路 4 min 路 710 words 路 Victor Grenu

Turn your AWS DevSecOps Pipeline into a bunker

This post was co-authored by Teddy Ferdinand. Who is working as Cloud Security Architect 馃惢 Introduction In this series, we will talk about the emergence of the DevSecOps movement, and more especially, what the benefits are of introducing a DevSecOps approach to your existing CI/CD Pipelines. CI/CD Pipeline To give you some context, you will find in the diagram below a standard DevOps CI/CD Pipeline. DevSecWhat? DevSecOps could be defined as a shift from a central internal security team to the inclusion of security practices in the existing DevOps teams: DevSecOps 馃帀 ...

June 18, 2020 路 8 min 路 1513 words 路 Victor Grenu

Update on being Independent [6 months later]

This post is the second part of a series about my journey as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect. Status As I already told you in the first part, I started my own business in early January 2020. After the first 6 months of being an Independent AWS Architect in France, I鈥檓 very happy with this move, no regret, and I don鈥檛 see any upcoming U-turn to come back as a full-time employee. ...

June 1, 2020 路 4 min 路 664 words 路 Victor Grenu

GitHub Actions with AWS: Hands-On

Hi Folks, Lately, I was experimenting with GitHub Actions (GHA), as it has been a buzzword since General Availability (GA), but I didn鈥檛 take the time to try it before. I鈥檝e done it for you folks. 馃檶 Context GHA was released on GA in November 2019, the main features are: Automate development workflows (CI/CD): build, test, deploy Hosted runners / self-hosted runners Automate the management of your GH Community: PR, Code Reviews, or Issue Tracking Built-in secrets store ...

March 29, 2020 路 6 min 路 1258 words 路 Victor Grenu