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Zed vs. VS Code
Since its debut in 2015, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has become the preferred code editor for most developers. A 2023 Stack Overflow survey revealed that 73% of users favored VS Code. It is free and packed with features and extensions. So why did I switch to Zed? 4sysops article continues here… …
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A Pulumi example: Deploying an EC2 instance
Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solution similar to Terraform. One advantage of Pulumi is that it allows DevOps engineers to use familiar programming languages to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure. This post demonstrates how to deploy an EC2 instance with Pulumi. 4sysops article continues here… …
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How to create and use Adaptive Cards
Adaptive Cards are a platform-agnostic specification for defining and rendering rich interactive content within various applications and chat channels, such as Teams or Slack. They are primarily used for display purposes in bot messages, notifications, emails, and other platforms where interactivity is desired. The primary idea is to allow developers to create a single card...…
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Using AWS Lambda functions with Docker containers
Back in 2020 at the AWS annual learning conference, re:Invent, one of the big announcements concerned AWS Lambda container image support for Docker and the Open Container Initiative (OCI). AWS Lambda, as a service, has always been popular, with its simple process of uploading code and not having to worry about provisioning servers. However, you...…
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A Go AWS SDK example
Amazon provides three ways you can access and manage Amazon Web Services: AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and software development kits (SDKs). Our focus here will be on the software development kit using the Go programming language. We will look at what the SDK actually is and how to get up...…
name := "Graham Beer"
`Cloud Engineer with his head in the AWS clouds, authored chapters in the PowerShell Conference Book 1 & 2 and currently learning and enjoying Go
