Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudTraditional Clustering in the Cloud, part 1: introductionCreating highly available (HA) applications in the cloud is generally pretty simple; ensure that no single component’s failure can bring…Sep 15, 20171Sep 15, 20171
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudConfiguration Management and the Cloud — the Operations One-Two PunchPossibly the best piece of career advice I ever received was given to me when I was just starting out at QAD. I was in the process of…Aug 5, 2017Aug 5, 2017
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudAgile was the best thing to ever happen to OpsWho here remembers this method of application deployment?Jun 14, 2017Jun 14, 2017
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudShared filesystems in AWS, part 1: introShared filesystems have been a part of my IT world for as long as I’ve been working in the field. In layman’s terms, a shared filesystem…Jan 23, 2017Jan 23, 2017
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudHow not to architect your AWS solution[This is the first in what will be a series of posts about infrastructure and cloud architecture]Jan 18, 2017Jan 18, 2017
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudVMware Cloud on AWS…what?OK, first off, I’ll admit I totally called it wrong: when I read that a VMware-AWS partnership was in the works, the only thing I could…Oct 15, 2016Oct 15, 2016
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudDetermining if an EC2 instance has a SQL licenseMaybe this has happened to you: you have a variety of EC2 AMIs, some of which have SQL licenses and some of which do not. Unfortunately…Oct 3, 2016Oct 3, 2016
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudHow to use Lambda for CloudFormation Custom Resources in AWS Regions that don’t support Lambda —…(Note: this article originally appeared here. I duplicated it so that it could remain published in Cloud Uprising.)Sep 23, 2016Sep 23, 2016
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudHow to use Lambda for CloudFormation Custom Resources in AWS Regions that don’t support Lambda —…(Note: this article originally appeared here. I duplicated it so that it could remain published in Cloud Uprising.)Sep 23, 2016Sep 23, 2016
Nate Aiman-SmithinRunAsCloudCreating a secure URL with an expiration date from S3Here’s a cool trick you can do with S3: you can generate a URL with an “expires” timestamp that will only be good until that timestamp…Sep 22, 20161Sep 22, 20161
