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Why automation is so important

Todays blog will talk about automation and why it's so important, especially in the modern IT world where day to day life moves at such a...

Nov 24, 20222 min read

Creating subnet groups for RDS in Terraform

It's been a long while since my last blog but happy to say I'm back creating some hopefully good blog content that you will all enjoy....

Oct 26, 20213 min read

DynamoDB Data Structure vs Traditional SQL Server

I've been starting to look at DynamoDB as a person that comes from a MS SQL relational Database background DynamoDB introduces some new...

May 6, 20213 min read

Creating my first python AWS script for automation

So I’ll be the first to admit my python skills definitely still have a long way to go but this week as I was sat there reading through a...

Apr 2, 20213 min read

Restoring on prem database to AWS RDS Manually

In this blog post we'll talk about how to restore databases on prem to RDS SQL manually. Why would you want to do this? Well doing a...

Mar 8, 20213 min read

Linux- Manage files

At the start of the year I accepted a role to become a DevOps engineer. I’ll be transitioning over properly in the middle of the year but...

Feb 22, 20215 min read

Monitor for SQL Agent job failures in MS SQL RDS

Last week has been a bit of a busy week for me, I’ve got really stuck into how MS SQL RDS works and the difference between on prem from a...

Feb 1, 20212 min read

Docker: Containerize your first app

In previous blogs we've gone through how to deploy an existing image as a container using docker. In this weeks blog post we'll look at...

Jan 25, 20215 min read

A note to the aspiring junior DBA

This year I’ve decided to include a few more articles that will centre round my personal experiences. One thing I love is mentoring...

Jan 18, 20213 min read

2021- A new year

First blog post of the year! First of all happy new year to all reading this. I always think it’s great to start off the new year by...

Jan 10, 20212 min read

An intro into RDS parameter groups

Last week I started to look at SQL RDS. Coming from a database admin background I found myself on a very steep learning curve with the...

Dec 21, 20204 min read

Optimising performance for Amazon S3

What is Amazon S3? Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple storage service) is an object storage service and is great for storing static data. It offers...

Dec 14, 20202 min read

Strategy for running jobs on AWS

I’ve been doing a fair bit of investigation around running jobs on AWS. There are a lot of different strategies we can go about this and...

Dec 7, 20203 min read

Creating your first Jenkins job

following on from my last post we successfully installed Jenkins. If you haven't got Jenkins installed yet on your own machine I'd...

Nov 30, 20203 min read

Install Jenkins on your local machine

In this weeks blog post we'll be covering Jenkins. If you've been following my journey so far you'll notice I've been looking into the...

Nov 23, 20203 min read

Getting started with Terraform with AWS2-Wrap

This weeks blog post is all about terraform! What is terraform? Well, Terraform allows you to write infrastructure as code. Say you need...

Nov 18, 20204 min read

Restoring from an RDS Snapshot using cloudformation

bit of a shorter post than usual in terms of the process but sometimes the short and sweet stuff can be one of the most important things...

Nov 12, 20203 min read

In-Place upgrade for Aurora Postgres RDS with AWS Cloudformation

I've been looking at the process of upgrading Aurora Postgres RDS when your using it in partnership with AWS Cloudformation. AWS are...

Nov 6, 20202 min read

Installing the latest SQL 2019 with docker

pre-req to this blog: install docker, I use docker desktop for windows. You can find everything you need to get started with this on the...

Nov 2, 20203 min read

Welcome!

Well this is my first blog post! So I've been really interested in learning more about this fantastic world which is dev-ops. Theres no...

Nov 2, 20201 min read