Meidi Airouche's blog

A journey from Virtual Machines (EC2) to Containers (EKS) and finally, to Function as a Service (Lambda). Why did we decided to go for "Serverless" FaaS ? Which steps we've gone through ? You'll learn everything in this topic ! Concepts First of all, we need to define the concepts we will talk about. If you are not familiar with Virtualization, Containers, or Serverless, let's explore them quickly : Virtualization : makes you able to create many virtual machines relying on one or many physical one(s). Then, you can dispatch the physical ressources over many VMs with a virtualization software relying on the physical hypervisor. A VM alone is not useful. You will have to install the operating system and all the softwares and patches required to make this VM being usable. Containers : is lightweight and standalone executable package of a software embedding everything needed to run an application, including code, runtime, libraries, settings... Containers relies on ...

  As an AWS Authorized Instructor, I've been training and coaching a lot of non technical people to go through this certification. This is quite a challenge to popularize some of the concepts but once done, anyone can achieve this certification with some few hours of work. In this post, I will explain you how to become an AWS certified Cloud Practitioner in 4 days ! First, let me introduce, according to me, who should get this certification and why ? The Cloud Practitioner certification is aimed at giving the very fundamental knowledge about AWS infrastructure, billing, core services... I would recommend this one for people who needs to know the big picture. For example, product managers, sales, business holders, C-Levels, HR teams... It can give you the right words for your commercial elevator pitch, knowledge for the SLA you could aim for, IT strategy, lead recruiting interview with AWS background etc... AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Journey I maybe shouldn't call it a...