dee retweeted
hi, midnight builders club 🌚
it’s 01:50 am, and i’m building a three-tier architecture on gcp, this time with terraform.
what are you building, learning, or working on tonight?
roll call!!!😌
dee retweeted
Why not Search for your dream role, find job descriptions for that position, study the requirements, identify the skills and tools employers are looking for, and start learning them.
Let the role you want guide what you learn 🤷🏽♀️
dee retweeted
I connected to my Ubuntu EC2 instance through SSH, and yesterday I went beyond simply accessing the server.
I explored user identities and administrative privileges, practised file permissions with `chmod` and `umask`, updated the Ubuntu system, and rebooted to apply a new kernel.
I also examined EC2 monitoring metrics, including CPU utilisation, network traffic and instance status checks.
Using Amazon CloudWatch, I reviewed EC2 performance metrics and instance health. With AWS CloudTrail, I learned how AWS API activity is recorded, including actions such as launching instances and modifying security configurations.
Next on my AWS roadmap: Storage…….moving into Amazon S3 and understanding storage configurations, access controls and security.
@awscloud @AWS_Edu
dee retweeted
Do this:
1. Create an AWS account. Set up billing alerts first, unless you want your first AWS lesson to be about bankruptcy.
2. Launch an EC2 instance. Generate an SSH key, connect from your laptop, install Nginx, and deploy a Node.js app. Break things, fix them, learn Linux commands.
3. Make your app public. Configure Security Groups for HTTP (80), HTTPS (443), and SSH (22, restricted to your IP). Open your public IP in a browser. Congratulations, you're a cloud engineer on LinkedIn.
4. Learn load balancing. Launch another EC2 instance, configure an Application Load Balancer, and distribute traffic. Your app has 3 users, but your infrastructure supports 3 million.
5. Set up Auto Scaling. Create a Launch Template and Auto Scaling Group. Configure CPU-based scaling. AWS can now automatically increase your bill.
6. Your database is choking? Learn SQS or Kafka for asynchronous processing. Build producers, consumers, retries, and dead-letter queues. Discover why distributed systems are painful.
7. Learn S3. Store images, videos, and backups. Connect it using the AWS SDK. Build a file uploader with presigned URLs.
8. Try RDS and Redis. Deploy PostgreSQL/MySQL on RDS. Learn backups, read replicas, indexing, connection pooling, and caching. Redis won't fix your terrible SQL queries.
7. Learn CloudWatch. Monitor CPU, memory, logs, errors, and latency. Configure alerts. Now you'll know exactly when your application dies.
8. Understand networking. Create a VPC, public/private subnets, route tables, NAT Gateway, and Internet Gateway. Break something and spend 4 hours debugging a missing route.
9. Learn Terraform. Automate your entire infrastructure using code. Understand state, modules, plan, apply, and destroy. One command to create everything. Another to destroy your career.
10. Learn Docker and CI/CD. Containerize your app, configure GitHub Actions, deploy using ECS, and eventually explore Kubernetes. Add "Cloud Architect" to your LinkedIn bio.
11. Open AWS Billing. Discover that your NAT Gateway costs more than your app earns. Delete unused resources.
12. Say FUCK AWS!!!!!!!!.
Buy a cheap VPS, install Docker and Coolify, and deploy everything for a fraction of the cost.
Your app finally gets 100,000 users. Your VPS starts crying.
Open AWS again.
AWS gets 10x easier when you understand these concepts: ☁️
• EC2 → Run virtual servers
• S3 → Store files and objects
• IAM → Manage access & permissions
• VPC → Build private networks
• RDS → Run managed databases
• Lambda → Run code without servers
• Route 53 → Manage DNS & routing
• CloudFront → Deliver content faster
• CloudWatch → Monitor AWS resources
• Auto Scaling → Adjust capacity automatically
Don't memorize 200 AWS services. Understand what each one solves.
dee retweeted
once u stop fantasizing about an ideal version of urself and start working towards it by setting ur alarm clock earlier, working out, reading, and stop procrastinating u'll realize that it was so easy all along. ur ideal self will only exist in ur mind until u make the decision.
dee retweeted
You need to work hard in order to move out of the place you are in, js to experience what actual life feels like. So, I beg you work hard for yourself. You need to move out.
