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Sound bites from 'The Phoenix Project' novel

The Phoenix Project is such a riveting story. Being a software developer, it resonated so well with me. Even if you are not a software developer, there is something to be learned from this book. This book shows how important it is to be honest, have integrity, faith, encourage risks and continuously improve in small but meaningful steps. The principles learned from this book can be applied to any industry, process, organization and even relationships.  https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592 I have a few quotes when I was done reading the book. Automation creed If it can be done once, it can be automated for future occurrences.  If it needs to be done more than once, it must be automated. People before process.  Feeling of being in control is an illusion. Let go of that feeling and breathe because you can still succeed when you succeed as a team. Four types of work Business projects Business ini
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SQL Server tables with JSON

We can indeed store json data as-is into a traditional Microsoft SQL Server database. The document hosted on Microsoft's site left a lot of questions and unknowns that I had to explore and experiment to figure out the right recipe for creating a table to store json, inserting the data as json and querying for the values of individual keys within the json. Here you go:  --Create a table with an identity column and a nvarchat(max) column to store the individual json documents create table dbo.logs (     _id bigint primary key identity,     json_log nvarchar(max) ); --Add a constraint to the json_log column of the table to ensure that the table accepts only json as value to store ALTER TABLE dbo.logs ADD CONSTRAINT [json_log record should be formatted as JSON] CHECK (ISJSON(json_log)=1); --Insert json into the table insert into dbo.logs values ('{"key": "value"}'); insert into dbo.logs values ('{"key": "value1"}'); --Query for al

My Infographic Resume

#Infographic Tech Resume

I had heard of 'Infographics'. I had seen them on space.com, like the one below, which is one of my favorites. I wanted to make one or more infographics for showing quarterly updates. I like this one from Facebook about their open source contributions for the whole year in 2016. So, when I made time to look into creating infographics on my own, I searched the Google-sphere and found a bunch of articles about tools for creating infographics. One of the good ones I came across is this -  8 free tools for creating infographics . I was intrigued by the number of options and features available on all these tools. But, the one topic that got my attention is 'infographic resume'. Wait, what? Infographic resume? Really? How would it look like? Yes it does and apparently it is quite a popular thing out there. Here's mine and I had a great time making it on canva.com . I was even able to edit on my little iPhone 6 using Canva's iOs App . For now, I cre

Create #VirtualPrivateCloud, NAT Instance and NAT Gateways on @AWSCloud

Create a Virtual Private Cloud, NAT instance and the new NAT Gatweay ... and making it all work. This is a YouTube playlist of three videos.

Cheat sheet to create a #VPC and Subnets on @AWSCloud

One of the critical things to remember for working with a AWS VPC is creating and using it. I had hard time remembering how to do it, so, I wrote down a cheat sheet for myself.  If anyone wants to follow along, just navigate to the VPC page on the AWS Console and start with 'Create VPC' button. Please note that this may cost some dollars if you are not on the free tier. If you are on the free tier and make mistakes, it may cost some dollars. In the steps below, we will be creating the following on a new VPC: An internet gateway One public subnet with routes for accessibility from the internet One private subnet without any routes One EC2 web server with Apache installed in it and serving a sample html page - using the public subnet. One EC2 server with the private subnet and security group that allows access to resources running on the public subnet only.  Create VPC Name tag: myVPC CIDR Block: 10.0.0.0/16 Tenancy: default (Must have default. Otherwise, it

#AWS Developer Notes - Part 1

Region is geographic area. Each region has availability zones - different data centers. Edge Locations - CDN end points for CloudFront. AWS Platform 1.0 Networking VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Virtual Data Center in your AWS account. Logically separate network. Direct Connect A way of connecting into AWS environment without using an internet connection.  Route53 DNS service. 53 is the default DNS port. 2.0 Compute EC2 Virtual server provisioned in a few seconds or minutes. EC2 Container Service Scalable fast container management service to manage and run Docker containers. Elastic Beanstalk Easy to use service to deploy and scale apps and services. Designed for developers to upload their code and beanstalk will inspect the code and provision the resources underneath. (Covered in detail for DevOps exam) Lambda Most powerful AWS service. Lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Pay for the compute time only