Diego Pacheco Tech blog

I was always a big believer in metadata and observability. Tagging is another form of observability, the idea is very basic and yet not well explored in our industry. You add metadata to a resource. Metadata is just data that describes data. Why bother? Well, at scale, there will be hundreds to thousands of resources including ec2 machines, container images, security groups, load balancers, and all kinds of applications like services, bffs, aggregators, a much more. How do you make sense of these resources? How do you know if you need them after all? Cloud computing is great but also is a big cost center. Understanding your resources is critical, not only for savings but for better infrastructure management. Tags help with cost, but they go beyond cost.  Endless Resources So let's say you have some scale, easily you can have hundreds to thousands of ec2 and dozens to hundreds of lamdas. The first question that should come to mind is ownership, how own all these resources? By not ha...

Meetings are part of our day-by-day activities. All companies do meetings, which probably is the most common practice ever. However little is done to change or even improve such practice. How many times do you see people cleaning up meetings, meaning analytically and systemically removing meetings as a regular activity? During the 2020 pandemic, everything became a meeting resulting in a Zoom call. Do you want to troubleshoot some problem, you need a meeting, do you need to ask your friend how is he going, guess what? You need a meeting.

NetflixOSS ICE is AWS COST monitoring solution. Similar to cloud watch but IMHO is better. There are some issues with ICE first of all is kinda of buggy at least right now - something you got some NPE and is hard to figure out what you did wrong. Second - its kinda of slow to run first time it take some time because it does lots of processing to figure out the costs.  You need have your billing configure right on AWS and also you need a S3 bucket to store the billing data so ICE and read and show the charts for you. We will install ICE on Amazon Linux OS(CentOS based).

 Everybody is looking for the cloud right now. Amazon Web Services(AWS) is leading and MS is getting aggressive with OSS and cloud, I think google was never competitive with cloud. The cloud market is ultra-hot . However there are lot of side effects on this let's say cloud rush. The basic one is the fact if you have a low skill operator or low skill architect this guys are dead. Because today is pretty ready to have solid and great architecture almost for free using amazon AWS. Off course there is a lock in effect on this. Amazon strategy already migrate monoliths to the cloud using lots of cloud services, dont get me wrong this services are great but you have a big infrastructure lock in with this. And depending how you do in out application you can have application lock in as well because amazon is amazon is not a RFC or a JSR spec.