Recent articles
Here are the most recent articles of this blog. They grow up so fast.
2024: My pledge for the next ten years and beyond
Posted Sunday January 28, 2024
Let’s switch gears, shall we? After almost thirty years of existence, I keep noticing how disorganized everything is. We have over-specialized across the board, injected technology and buzzwords and failed to take care of our people. Ownership, community, personal freedoms and the environment are receding every day. People are being squeezed and revolutions have become mundane. The advancement of technology was thrilling in the aughts, then the blooming of personal computing in the tens. This decade, AI is making waves and is likely do so for the rest of it. Doesn’t it feel like scarcity is setting in?
Bomb shell: What am I being paid?
Posted Sunday December 17, 2023
Oh no! What have I done?! Yes, we will be talking money, I am going to break the fourth wall. I believe that people must be fairly compensated and work in an environment that suits their style. Whether you personally know me or not, this is an opportunity to learn how much I make and position yourself in this market. And if you’re a recruiter casually passing by my profile, please use this data responsibly.
Engineering, five years in
Posted Friday August 05, 2022
We have done so much, yet we have so much to do Remember five years ago, when I was about to get my engineering degree? Well those five years flew by and I feel like I made significant progress from that time, yet I’m humbled that there is still so much to learn.
re:Invent 2021 - Vogels's Keynote
Posted Thursday December 02, 2021
Shouldn’t there be an Infrastructure Keynote blog post between this one and the last? He was sitting there, in the middle of the desert. Hawaiian shirt, jacket, yellow shades and a bob on his head. Suddenly his ride arrived. He packed his soft drinks, jumped on the driver’s seat and started the engine. Las Vegas was his destination, the road to re:Invent was the perfect occasion to play some bangers and remember the good old times. This was the tenth iteration of his keynote. An important anniversary. This one started with contemporary music played by a small orchestra. As he...
re:Invent 2021 - Sivasubramanian's Keynote
Posted Wednesday December 01, 2021
How many AWS re:Invent annual conferences have there been in total? This is the tenth one! What is the most valuable resource in an organization? Is it physical assets, a portfolio of brands, trademarks and patents, actual money, people, teams, culture? While the response may vary wildly depending on how the discussion partner understands the question, there is one that is a cut above the rest for its propensity to be easy to misinvest and very limited in quantity: time. With our tools, frameworks, solutions and platforms, we are building experiences that are ever increasingly complex and value-generating. Despite our...
re:Invent 2021 - Selipsky's Keynote
Posted Tuesday November 30, 2021
Do you remember when the first Amazon Web Services launched? That was in 2006! The least we can say about AWS is that their growth has been phemonenal since day one. Fifteen years ago, in 2006, the Cloud was another fad like Facebook, Youtube or the Nintendo Wii. Yet, if we are here today to tell you about our success stories, it is because the Cloud was no fad after all. The first services were Amazon S3 and then Amazon EC2. They were certainly not as feature complete as they are today nor as integrated with many other services. Nevertheless,...
The day the social network shut down forever
Posted Sunday November 21, 2021
The social network has now become too niche to justify its existence and has finally shut down… Remember these good times you had? The baby photos, the cute animals and landscapes, the memes and jokes, the birthdays, Christmases, New Years and other seasonal posts from your friends, family and acquaintances you met once at a party. They are all gone, now. All the hours you poured into making your profile picture and background admirable, the ones and zeroes you flooded the virtual world with by sending reactions, posts, pictures, videos and your data. The moments of panic you experienced when...
NextDNS, tried and trusted!
Posted Wednesday June 16, 2021
“There are alternatives” Never has the Web been that encumbered with tracking, telemetry, ads and essentially junk. Never has the Web been that difficult to navigate, whether because there are cookie banners everywhere or noisy chatbots. On the other side of the mirror, never have these solutions been so simple to implement! You can subscribe to any SaaS that provides one of these services, connect a few things here and there and here you go: you expose your users to third parties to serve ever more relevant content.
Deploying a complete infrastructure on the Huawei Cloud - Part 2
Posted Friday February 12, 2021
Words of notice: This is an article has been written by Antoine Cavaillé. Many thanks for their consent to sharing this story here. Before we begin, check out the first part of the series in case you missed it. It presents the backbone, the base layer of our infrastructure. This second part concentrates on the different components needed by our application to run on Huawei Cloud. Part 1: Docker Repository To deploy our application on Kubernetes, we will be using Docker containers. Those containers will need an image to run and we chose to store the images on a Huawei...
Deploying a complete infrastructure on Huawei Cloud
Posted Friday February 05, 2021
Words of notice: This is an article has been written by Antoine Cavaillé. Many thanks for their consent to sharing this story here. Some elements of context As a Cloud Engineer at Gekko Part of Accenture, I am comfortable running complex infrastructure on AWS which provides datacenters all over the world. But in one project, a customer wished to replicate their infrastructure on a different Cloud provider, Huawei Cloud! I was only aware of the existence of Huawei hardware such as smartphones, computers and IT oriented products but not as a Cloud provider so I decided to share my experience...