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AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

This is the second part of Instance Scheduler where I am going to explain how a lambda function which when invoked by CloudWatch rule, triggers a SNS notification which sends me an email. Every time the specified instance changes state (start,...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 1

One fine day at work, I was playing around with "Cloud Custodian '' which is a tool to schedule instances on-and-off during a certain time provided. For example, we would want to have those instances running between 9am to 5pm weekdays. This helps...

Amazon RDS on VMware

Amazon RDS on VMware

Brief overview of Amazon RDS on VMwareAmazon and VMware have jointly partnered to bring the battle tested Amazon RDS service in private data centres that has VMware vSphere clusters running. There is no doubt that VMware is the de facto Hypervisor...

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

In software development, developers use the Version Control Systems(VCS) to manage and organize their team work in a central repository. According to the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017, 69.2 percent of developers use Git, to define...

VM vs Container

VM vs Container

Virtualization Virtualization is a technology which enables creation of multiple virtual computing environments on a physical computing machine. As opposed to traditional methods where a physical machine is used for a single server, virtualization...

Things that you should know about DNS

Things that you should know about DNS

In this article I will explain you things that you should know about DNS. We think we all know what DNS is and how it works, but we get sloppy at times. So, I decided to dig deep into DNS. I decided to write what I learned. I may not be able to...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

This is the second part of Instance Scheduler where I am going to explain how a lambda function which when invoked by CloudWatch rule, triggers a SNS notification which sends me an email. Every time the specified instance changes state (start,...

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 2

AWS EC2 Instance Scheduler – Part 1

One fine day at work, I was playing around with "Cloud Custodian '' which is a tool to schedule instances on-and-off during a certain time provided. For example, we would want to have those instances running between 9am to 5pm weekdays. This helps...

Amazon RDS on VMware

Amazon RDS on VMware

Brief overview of Amazon RDS on VMwareAmazon and VMware have jointly partnered to bring the battle tested Amazon RDS service in private data centres that has VMware vSphere clusters running. There is no doubt that VMware is the de facto Hypervisor...

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

How To Rename a Local and Remote Git Branch ?

In software development, developers use the Version Control Systems(VCS) to manage and organize their team work in a central repository. According to the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017, 69.2 percent of developers use Git, to define...

VM vs Container

VM vs Container

Virtualization Virtualization is a technology which enables creation of multiple virtual computing environments on a physical computing machine. As opposed to traditional methods where a physical machine is used for a single server, virtualization...

Things that you should know about DNS

Things that you should know about DNS

In this article I will explain you things that you should know about DNS. We think we all know what DNS is and how it works, but we get sloppy at times. So, I decided to dig deep into DNS. I decided to write what I learned. I may not be able to...