Cloud DevOps Architecture and AI Solutions
With the recent (but not unexpected) discovery that OpenAI never deleted your chats and now courts are demanding chat histories for upcoming legal cases I thought that now would be a good time to write an article helping people who want to explore large language models (LLMs) like LLaMA, Mistral, or Gemma without relying on… Read More: Getting Started Running Local LLMs with Ollama The post…
Welcome to my ultimate* home office guide! 🤣 As someone who has been working from home for awhile now, having a productive workspace is essential. Over the past 10 years that I ve been WFH, I ve cobbled together this setup that enhances my workflow and helps streamline my daily routine. In this list I ll provide a… Read More: The Ultimate* Home Office Setup Guide The post The Ultimate* Home…
There are very few certainties in the world. The old idiom would have you believe that it s just death and taxes but I would like to add running out of disk space to the list 🤣 I m always upgrading the homelab, sometimes it s the network, the physical footprint, or my connection to the cloud. This… Read More: Upgrading the Mistwire homelab with a new Synology! The post Upgrading the Mistwire…
This article is the eighth in a series covering my AWS DevOps Professional certification study process, part 7 on Elastic Beanstalk is here. AWS Lambda is a serverless service. It is event-driven meaning that some action/event triggers it to run. With it, you can run code for without provisioning or managing VPCs or servers. In… Read More: DevOps Pro Domain 2: Lambda The post DevOps Pro Domain 2:…
This article is the seventh in a series covering my AWS DevOps Professional certification study process, part 6 is here. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker.. Upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, capacity… Read More: AWS DevOps Pro…
There is a LOT to CloudFormation! This is the second article continuing my DevOps Pro study series. Part 1 of CloudFormation can be found here. You can import SSM Parameter Store values specify a Systems Manager parameter key as the value of the SSM parameter, and CloudFormation gets the value from Parameter Store to… Read More: AWS DevOps Pro Domain 2: CloudFormation (part 2) The post AWS DevOps…
CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code (IaC). It s a declarative (meaning you don t need to figure out ordering) method of defining and creating infrastructure for any AWS resource. No resources are manually created (i.e. avoid environment drift). The IaC can be version controlled and therefore… Read More: AWS DevOps…
This article is the third in a series covering my AWS DevOps Professional certification study process. Part 2 is here. CodePipeline is a Continuous Delivery (CD) service a visual workflow. It automates the build, test, deploy phases of the release process. Load testing requires 3rd party tools. CodePipeline happens in stages which the… Read More: AWS DevOps Pro Domain 1: SDLC Automation…
The Scenario I am currently doing the 100 Days of Code challenge using Angela Yu s Udemy course. In the morning before work starts I do a little bit of it on my MS Windows desktop: In the evening I ll commit my changes to my GitHub repository step away from the desk. After dinner and… Read More: OS Environment Variables and why the .env file is Python s… The post OS Environment Variables and why…
This article is the second in a series covering my AWS DevOps Professional certification study process. Part 1 is here. CodeDeploy AWS Managed deployment service that automates application deployments to (1) EC2 instances, (2) serverless Lambda functions, (3) AWS ECS services, or (4) on-premises virtual machines. Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet are similar services. *CodeDeploy does… Read More:…