Coffee, IT and Nerdices

Hey guys !!! Hope you are doing pretty good? Today's post is supposed to be a quick one. I am going to start with a real case scenario. I was working for an Enterprise Managed Services provider and because EMS supports multiple customers, you end up with a bunch of environments, credentials, diagrams that make your life a lot harder whenever you need to jump on a server to troubleshoot something. This tough task though, can be easier if you have the ability to leverage AWS Systems Manager in your environment. What systems manager allows you to do is , basically, access a shell of a machine without having to rdp or ssh to it, have an inventory of your fleet, and , one of the coolest features, running commands/scripts against multiple servers at once, again, without even knowing an username or password. My assignment was to identify which servers were still configured to use a DNS server that we were going to decommission. The challenge was, not all servers were part of a...

Hi there !! I hope you guys are doing good. It's been a long time since my last post and so much went on that I could spend hours here. I ain't gonna do that, I will just go straight to the point which is: The cloud ! Yeah folks ! All I can tell you is that, if you have not gotten started yet, you should ! before you realize it's too late. There is no way back, you gotta know cloud. Being AWS, Azure and GCP the big players at the moment, today we will talk about the one that leads the race: AWS. I have a background in computer networking and windows server. I am not a dev guy but things started to change and now, I think you should learn some programming as this can make you a more valuable professional. Automation is incredibly desired nowadays and you should know both, infra and dev, in order to really be successful in the cloud. When we decide to learn something new we generally start to get our hands dirty by setting up a lab. AWS gives you a chance to build...

Hi guys !! I hope you are doing great and enjoying summer (at least for Northern Hemisphere folks). I know my friends in Brazil are struggling with a super cold winter (10 C/50 F ??). Oh !!! I'd love having a winter "that" cold here in Montreal but, anyways. So, today I'd like to talk about certification or degree. In IT, which one is more important ? People have different thoughts about this topic and I think there is no wrong or right. It depends on your situation. I personally tend to agree that , perhaps, having both is the best as you could benefit from the great things both of them can give to you but, if you can't afford having both, I'd tend to agree that keeping your certifications up to date is probably better than having only a degree. Let me tell you why I believe in this. I have an associate's degree in computer networking that was achieved in 2009. My first certification, I got in 2009. I got started in the certification world wi...