aws bootcamp liveblogging

[rone]

In my efforts to find a new job, i've signed up for an AWS Bootcamp class, because THE CLOUD is one of the New Hotnesses that i lack.

So far, i am dismayed by the difficulty some of the people in this Intermediate class are having with finding stuff on a page, following instructions, and figuring stuff out.

Comments

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

CONCLUSIONS: you are smarter than the average bear.

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

Dude, seriously? You have VMWare experience and know how to access/configure an application through a web-based portal, right?

I hereby declare you Cloud-Certified, Cloud-Capable, and Cloud-Aware.

The hot sexy-ness for Cloud is all in the marketing. You can steal that marketing for your resume. In fact, under CA employment law I believe you are morally compelled to steal from marketing people at every opportunity; but it's been a few years so don't quote me.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I do not, in fact, have VMWare experience. One of the reasons i got torpedoed by a recent job opp.

The hot sexy-ness for Cloud is not in the marketing, but in the execution. That's one thing i learned at Netflix (how to do it right), and later at eBay (how to do it in a "not even wrong" way).

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

I always feel that way in class. It's so frustrating.

[tskirvin.livejournal.com]

How much "experience" is enough with VMware lately? I just don't know the cut-off lines.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

As noted above, i don't have any, so i'm not qualified to say how much experience is enough.

[bryant]

http://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page is a super-easy install. Read this note before hand; you need to install puppet and the quick start doesn't warn you. But otherwise it was painless and you get a full-featured private cloud to futz around with.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's on the list, too. In fact, one of the guys at work has had that on the project stack since December in order to put Dev/QA on it, except that it fell behind in priority. Then someone else set up OpenVZ instead, which isn't bad but isn't really progressive, either. Thanks for the caveat link.