Author: renato
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
To celebrate 5 years after my very first AWS certification, I got today my fifth one, the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. Thanks to Adrian Cantrill for providing the best collection of on-line resources to tackle the exam.
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Talk at re:publica 2018
I am really excited (and a bit nervous already!) to attend next May re:publica, Europe’s most inspiring conference on internet and society, and talk about geolocation and disputed territories. You can read the abstract here. The (accidental) political developer is back, see you in Berlin!
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What is the size of your RDS backups and snapshots?
According to the Amazon documentation, many users never pay for automated backups and DB Snapshots There is no additional charge for backup storage, up to 100% of your total database storage for a region. (Based upon our experience as database administrators, the vast majority of databases require less raw storage for a backup than for…
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Talk at DevOps Conference 2018 Berlin
I am very excited to attend this year the DevOps Conference in Berlin and present the session “Do not press that button: operational challenges of relational databases on the cloud”. You can find the abstract here. Looking forward to DevOpsCon in May!
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Alexa, what is the capital of Israel?
The status of Jerusalem has been in the news a lot in the last few weeks, since Donald Trump confirmed the US now recognize the city as capital of Israel. And the recent UN voting on rejecting the recognition. If maps and location-based services present unexpected challenges in a disputed territory to the developer who…
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Alexa & Grandma
The sound is not as good as a Bose speaker. I sadly had to remove a few broken valves to make space for a working audio device. But setting up Alexa and testing my Big World skill on Grandma’s radio is priceless. Next step, setting it up inside the radio.
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The (accidental) political developer at Codemotion Berlin
Here are the abstract and the slides of my talk “the (accidental) political developer” at Codemotion Berlin today. [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT8m4-FnNicJ_E-aTk2AIAHj2dm09istcIdr9y_i_E306kp8yhXjcT0Jy3uTjVh-BNxr8s-4QEDm_zD/embed” query=”start=false&loop=true&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /] Update Listen to the audio recording here. Check out the slides here.