Technodrone

It has been a journey, one that took a long time.

I wanted to write this post a long time ago - but refrained from doing so for a number of reasons.

Sometimes there comes a time where you have to admit that a decision you made in the past, was not optimal, was not ideal.

I finished The Unicorn Project a few weeks ago, and I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you.

This was the spark for this post..

It is time for a change.

On this page you can find a list of publications I have authored, articles in which I have been quoted or in which I contributed content. 2017 Benchmarking Instances: The Balance Between Cost and Performance (September 20th, 2017 - CloudCheckr) Choosing t…

Disclaimer I am not a lawyer, I maintain and update this blog in my spare time and as such I will try and word this in a way that is simple to understand, both for me as a content creator, and also for you as reader of this blog.

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Hi, my name is Maish Saidel-Keesing and welcome to my piece of real estate on the web.

Simon Sinek has a great talk - about how great leaders inspire great action.

I dabble in AWS every now and again :) and a new book just came out - so obviously I wanted to go through it and give it a read.

AWS has 26, (yes) I counted them, different products with exactly 3 letters in them (or derivatives of) - lets go through them one at a time.

Now that I have got your attention with a catchy title - let me share with some of my thoughts regarding how AWS shines and how much your experience as a customer matters.

Many of us working with any cloud provider know that you should never ever commit access keys to a public github repo.

I have a decent commute every day back and forth to work and I have come to enjoy listening to a number of podcasts throughout the week.

Just to make this clear (before someone get’s the wrong idea…) This 100% fun.

Back in July 2018, I started to write a blog post about the upcoming death of Docker as a company (and also perhaps as a technology) but I never got round to completing and publishing the post.

I have come across this a number of times of the past couple of months.

I am currently on vacation in Rome (my first time) and during this trip I came to a number of realizations that I would like to share with you.

I don’t always do these kind of posts but 2018 was a substantial year for me that warrants a short summary.

There was a lot to absorb during the jam packed week in Las Vegas but there were a number of things that I was truly surprised about during the conference..

So after leaking (or not really leaking) from some of the sessions from re:Invent it seems that AWS have finally released the Client VPN AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables you to securely access your AWS resources and resour…

I called it - to me it was obvious that this was going to happen.

I am now on a plane on my way back home, on a really long flight from SFO to TLV (13.5 hours) so now is a good time to re-cap and reflect on what happened last week at re:Invent.

I am not an expert, and I only went to re:Invent for the first time last year, but I have been to a quite a number of conferences over the years.

Most vendors that perceive themselves as a market leader will have a major annual event (some will even have multiple events in different geographical locations).

It seems like only yesterday, but it was actually almost 10 years ago when I gave something awesome to the VMware community - the first version of the VMware stencils.

So we are a little more than a month away from the yearly ascent to all things AWS - re:Invent 2018.

re:Invent is coming - and the frenzy of releases that will build up to the event is just around the corner.

A customer came to me with a request.

I have come across two separate discussions this past week where it became clear that some people have no idea what DevOps is.

This is the last part in the Replacing the AWS ELB series.

This is Part 5 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series.

This is Part 3 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series.

This topic has been long overdue.

This is Part 4 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series.

This is Part 2 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series.

I think that aws-vault is a really nice tool.

We all started off as babies, and I am sure that not many of you remember that one of the first toys you played with (and if you do not remember - then I am sure those of you with kids have probably done the same with your children) was a plastic container

I have a jumpbox that I use to access resources in the cloud – and I use it at work, only during work hours and only on workdays.

I have moved almost exclusively to a Chromebook for my day-to-day work (a whole other set of blog posts - on the journey and outcome are planned), and I was missing one of the tools in belt and that was aws-vault.

A few days ago at the AWS Summit in New York there was an announcement which in my honest opinion went very noticeably under the radar and i don’t think many people understand exactly what it means.

In a group discussion last week – I heard a story (I could not find the origin – if you know where it comes from – please let me know) – which I would like to share with you.

This is a translation of an interview I gave to IsraelClouds (a meet the architect session).

The feedback I received from the first comparison was great – thank you all.

Whenever someone asks me what tools do you use to provision your infrastructure within AWS - the answer is it can be done with a variety of tools - but people usually use one of the following three CloudFormation Terraform Ansible The next question that c…

Microsft is currently in negotiations to acquire.

As a true technologist – I am not a favor of analyst reports and in some circles Gartner is a dirty word – but since most of the industry swears by Gartner – I went over the report.

I am sure you are all familiar with those select few in your company who supposedly have super powers or hidden technological gifts.