A few weeks ago I sat and passed the AWS SysOps Associate exam, rounding out the Associate tier of certifications. For me, at least, SysOps was the easiest , of the three – partially because I took it on the back of of the Developers Associate exam and took advantage…
I sat the AWS Developer Associate exam on June 5th, and found out yesterday I’d passed with an 822! This exam was both easier and more difficult than the Solutions Architect Associates for me, for a couple reasons. First and foremost, I have a lot more hands on experience with…
Last week marked one year at Mindgrub, and I thought it worthwhile to reflect on the past year. It’s definitely been a year of growth, almost overwhelmingly so. I’ve worked on dozens of projects in varying capacities, and each one has taught me new skills, or deepened my knowledge on…
I’ve started studying for the AWS Developer’s Associate exam, and I wish I’d looked closer before I started planning. In my head, my rough plan has been do one associate exam this year, one next year, and then do the Solutions Architect Pro exam the same year my SAA runs…
My team and I ran into a a bit of a tricky situation this past week, and I wanted to document the solution for myself, and anyone else who might come across the same issue. The Situation: I had a Drupal 9 app on our dev server, configured as a…
I stopped updating here for a while, for a number of reasons. First, because for the Cloud Resume Challenge, this needed to be an html site. Which is fine, but updating became a pain. I just converted the site to WordPress, so I can blog more easily. I also used…
I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I’ve posted an updated. I know it’s a cliche, but dang, time moves fast. I haven’t made measurable improvments on the Cloud Resume Challenge, but I haven’t been idle, either. First, I spent a couple weeks skilling up on Ansible. I’d…
Whoo! The last couple weeks have been a little intense! As I mentioned in my last post, I mentioned I set up a Jenkins instance and used it to build a project on EC2, in preparation for the interview. I had a few more days before the interview so I…
I took a little bit of a detour from the Cloud Resume Challenge. I’m interviewing with a company I’d very much like to work with, and I’d noticed in the job description they’d mentioned Jenkins a few times. Jenkins has been on my radar to play with, so I thought…
Hello! I’m Sam, welcome to my blog! I’m a veteran System Administrator who is working on making the transition to working in the cloud, and you can find out more about me here. My intention here is to document that journey, along with anything else of interest that comes up.…