A few days ago, at Incontro DevOps Italia (IDI) 2019 I did a breakout session about the topic in subject. I decided to use the 30-ish minutes I had available to share a bit of context re the need for deployment automation and then I did a short demo (well, as short as a CI/CD demo could be) that was aimed at showing …

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At Amazon we work backwards from customer needs and this is embodied in everything we do. When we release a new product or service we start from the “press release and FAQ” and work backwards from there to develop what we intend to build for our customers. I am sketching this post in early December (2018) on a train …

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When I joined AWS last year, I was trying to find a way to explain, in the easiest way possible, all the options the platform offers to our users from a compute perspective. There are of course many ways to peal this onion and I wanted to create a “visual story” that was easy for me to tell. I ended up drafting an …

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As you may have heard, late last year I joined Amazon Web Services. I have recently turned 6 months at AWS (or 180 x Day1) and that is often a good point to pause and reflect. Also, I have got so many people asking me how I am doing here that I thought a public blog post would scale better than many 1:1 interactions. …

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This is my first blog post as an AWS employee. I have spent the last 6+ months learning new things (IAM being one of them) and I figured I could (and should) share some of these learnings with my followers. I hope it can smooth the learning curve when you transition from a data center centric view of the world to a …

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I have an awesome job, an awesome manager and I work for one of the best companies around. Yet, Friday September 29th 2017 is my last day at VMware. On Monday October 2nd I will join Amazon Web Services as a Principal Solutions Architect. This was not a decision I took lightly. This blog post (in its original draft) …

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Introduction VMware, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are in the middle of some interesting technology and services roll out that have the potential of moving the needle in cloud adoption (spoiler alert: whatever cloud means). VMware is coming from a very strong (almost exclusive) marketshare in the on-prem data …

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Yesterday I noted a tweet from Frank Denneman: I guess he was asking this in the context of the VMWonAWS cloud offering and how, with said service, you could provision vSphere capacity without having to “acquire server hardware”. This reminded me of an anecdote I often use in talks to describe some of the data center …

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Another pet project I have spent cycles on as of late is an open source sample application called Yelb (thanks to my partner in crime chief developer Andrea Siviero for initiating me to the mysteries of Angular2). This is the link to the Yelb repo on GitHub. I am trying to be fairly verbose in the README files in the …

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This article was originally posted on the VMware Cloud Native corporate blog. I am re-posting here for the convenience of the readers of my personal blog. Early this year I challenged myself with a pet project to create a Rancher catalog entry for Project Harbor (a VMware-started open sourced enterprise container …

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