The Case for Noise Reduction For the last 10+ years, I’ve been producing video training materials on IT systems automation, cloud, containers, and software development. Over the course of these years, I’ve learned many techniques about how to improve both video and audio quality. In fact, I wrote an article …
If you’re in a professional role where you’re writing lots of code, it pays to write better code, faster. Following onto that, the better your tool-chain is, the faster you can write code. You generally expect your tools to provide feedback as quickly as possible, so that you can fix …
Elgato, the creator of the WiFi-capable Key Light Air, provides a couple pieces of software that work in tandem to give you remote control over these lights. These two applications are Stream Deck, which interacts with a hardware device, and Control Center, which communicates with the lights. Every day that …
Hey folks, this is going to be a short post, to simply point to some video training that I’ve recently published. As a software instructor for CBT Nuggets, I produced a series of videos that describes how I am building a serverless solution to perform video processing tasks. In addition …
Recently, I needed to monitor my auto scaling groups in AWS, to see why they weren’t scaling up properly. Although I can use the AWS management console to monitor these activity messages, it isn’t very efficient to continuously click the refresh button. Hence, I wanted to automate the process of …
I wanted to get notified any time there was a new BIOS update for the motherboard that I use on one of my desktop systems, which is an ASRock Phantom Gaming 4. Unfortunately, most motherboard manufacturers have terrible websites, that are hard to navigate, so I had to improvise. One …
These days, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, people are spending a lot more time on conference calls from home. According to VentureBeat, Zoom raced from 3 million to 200 million users in just one quarter! Not everyone has a dedicated home office setup, since prior to the …
Introduction Amazon WorkSpaces provides a mechanism to rapidly deploy cloud-based desktop systems that can be used by software developers, call center representatives, knowledge workers, and nearly any other role. They’re great for short-term contractor roles as well, since they don’t require physical procurement of any new hardware. In the rest …
In Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), each VPC has a default route table, known as the “main” route table. If you want to identify the route table that is considered the “main” route table, it can be a little challenging. Using the Get-EC2RouteTable command, you might notice …
Problem Statement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a relatively easy mechanism to improve the security of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. Instead of logging into the AWS Management Console using a username and password, you also have to provide a time-based one-time password (TOTP). The same concept applies when …
