I recently passed the AWS Developer Associate certification. I wanted to pass along my knowledge as well as all the other resources I used during my studies. The best thing is to obviously use the products and services by creating yourself an account and dig right in. This has been my second AWS certification, the …
Giving back to the vCommunity
I was awarded the vExpert Program in early March 2018. This was a goal I set out to achieve last year. One of the of many actions I did over the last year to earn the achievement was starting up a blog. It's a way for me to give back to the vCommunity. Now is …
Impostor Syndrome
"I'm good enough. I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me." I feel like I've had to say this to myself more often. The impostor syndrome has been hitting hard lately. Watching social media, I think it's been hitting others in the industry as well. I thought it would be a good topic …
What are your New Year’s Resolutions?
I don't know about you, but I like setting New Year's resolutions. I like setting goals for myself and reflecting back on how I did on those goals. Not all goals can be accomplished, but looking back and knowing that at least I accomplished something through the year proves to me that I can keep …
Change Can Be Good
I haven't written anything in almost twenty days. I'm finding writing is almost therapeutic. It's a way for me to sit down, focus, and organize my thoughts, both technical thoughts and random opinions. Over these last three weeks I've had a lot of different thoughts go through my head. I started a new job this …
How to create WordPress in AWS
I've enjoyed the self challenge of creating a blog a week, especially for Blogtober. This will be my fifth blog. If you don't know what Blogtober is, it's a community driven challenge to produce five articles in the month of October. I've struggled with this last one. I don't know if it's the extra added …
Know how to code
To be success in this new age of enterprise infrastructure, every systems administrator needs to be able to write code and be able to read other people's code. It's a skill us admins need to be developing. The Start to My Software Development When I went to college, I did not study computer science. I …
#Blogtober 3 – Free Stuff
Who doesn't like free stuff? You could say I've been known to not let the purse strings loose very often. When it comes to technology, why should I? There's a lot of great software out there that enterprise vendors offer for free. Well...nothing is truly free right? Some of the vendors may require you to …
#Blogtober No.2 – Crowdsourcing Mentorship
I've been thinking about the direction of my career for a few years now and how to keep progressing. One of the keys to progressing is finding a mentor. I've listened to conferences, podcasts, and social media and everyone agrees that finding a mentor is a great way to sharpen both technical skills and soft …
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#Blogtober 1 – Don’t Pester With My Vester
Don't you hate it, when someone comes into your organization and tells you the environment is not consistent, or the environment is not configure correctly? That's a small hit to the gut. This recently happened to me. An outside consulting group came in and reported some inconsistencies with our VMware environment. The report showed some …
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