Welcome my Cloud Native friend! 👋
Why Does The Dev Coach Exist?
If the question is: “What does a software engineer need to know about engineering in the cloud?”… then this website is the answer.
The world of software engineering shifted in the past 10 years, and cloud technologies are dominant. Which has massively changed how software engineering works, and you’ll need to learn fast if you want to keep up.
This website isn’t like most others. So let me show you how things work…
Every week, I publish new articles on different cloud engineering topics. And every month I publish The Cloud Engineering Newsletter which rounds up the important news and to round-up all month’s articles.
All the articles are categorised under a pillar of Cloud Engineering, with their own “Ultimate Guide” page (e.g. Serverless, Infrastructure As Code, Containers). The ultimate guides can simply be read, or alternatively emailed to you as part of the corresponding course.
And all these categories align to become The Cloud Native Academy. Your full, comprehensive, start-to-finish guide through Cloud Engineering.
Where To Start?
So if you’re now wondering where to start, I’d highly recommend signing up to the newsletter as that will give you continued updates.
When you’re signed up then you can go right ahead and dive into one of the ultimate guides (I would recommend Serverless).
And if you have any questions, feel free to send them over.
Find Out More: The Cloud Native Software Engineering NewsletterEvery Article I’ve Ever Written
Alternatively you can dive into any article that grabs your fancy. They’re all here, broken down by category…
Learning Cloud Native
- Best Online Communities For Cloud Engineers (Forums, Chats & More)
- Do Cloud Engineers Code?
- Where (And How) to Start Learning AWS as a Beginner
- The Big List Of Cloud Native Engineering Resources
- What is a Cloud Native Software Engineer?
- ACloudGuru Review: AWS SysOps Exam Prep.
Infrastructure-As-Code
- What Is Terraform Used For? The 3 Main Use Cases.
- How Long Does It Take To Learn Terraform? And How To Speed Up Your Learning.
- Should You Use Typescript To Write Terraform? (The Terraform CDK)
- Terraform: How To Rename (Instead Of Deleting) A Resource
- The Simplest Possible EC2 Web Server Setup Using Terraform (On AWS)
- What is Terraform? A Simple Definition.
- 10 Terraform Best Practices: For Secure & Fast Infrastructure.
- Should You Commit the Terraform .tfstate File to Git?
- The Ultimate Terraform Workflow: Setup Terraform (And Remote State) With Github Actions
- What Is the Best Way to Learn Terraform?
- Create An AWS S3 Website Using Terraform And Github Actions
- What is Immutable Infrastructure?
- 3 Steps To Migrate Existing Infrastructure To Terraform
- 5 Important Reasons To Learn Terraform Before Cloud Computing.
- Terraform Modules: A Guide To Maintainable Infrastructure As Code
- Declarative vs. Imperative Infrastructure As Code
- Learn The 6 Fundamentals Of Terraform — In Less Than 20 Minutes
- 3 Terraform Features to Help You Refactor Your Infrastructure Effortlessly
- Infrastructure As Code: A Quick And Simple Explanation.
Serverless
- Can AWS Lambda Access A Database? And The Considerations You Should Be Taking.
- You’re Alerting Wrong: The Why & How Of Setting An AWS Lambda Alarm Using Error Rate Percentages.
- How Do You Look at Console.Log Output of an Amazon Lambda Function?
- Serverless on AWS Lambda: A Comprehensive Comparison Of Approaches (Serverless Framework vs SAM vs Terraform vs CloudFormation)
- 3 Simple Serverless Beginner Projects Ideas
- Misconceptions of Serverless: 5 Things You Thought AWS Lambda Did… But It Doesn’t.
- How to Use AWS KMS in AWS Lambda
- Master the AWS Lambda Console: A Comprehensive Walkthrough.
- AWS Queues And Lambda Processing: A Simple, Quick Walkthrough.
- How To Setup AWS Lambda Scheduled Events with Terraform
- How To Get AWS Lambda Logs Into CloudWatch
- Set Up AWS Lambda With An ALB (Load Balancer)
- AWS Lambda on Github Actions: How To Send Zipped Artifacts to AWS S3
- 4 Signs You Should Break Your App Into Microservices
- The 6 Concepts You Need To Know Before Trying Serverless
- Setting up a REST API on Serverless Framework
Containers
AWS
- Can You Learn AWS On Your Own? How To Ensure Success.
- What Are The Pre-Requisites To Learning AWS? 5 Topics You Probably Should Look Into First.
- Does AWS Require Coding? Understanding When You Might Need To Code.
- Can AWS Lambda Access A Database? And The Considerations You Should Be Taking.
- Is AWS Easy To Learn? (And How You Can Make It Easier)
- You’re Alerting Wrong: The Why & How Of Setting An AWS Lambda Alarm Using Error Rate Percentages.
- Should You Use Typescript To Write Terraform? (The Terraform CDK)
- How To Setup Monitoring / Observability On Existing Software (e.g. A Web API): A Practical 5 Step Guide.
- How Do You Look at Console.Log Output of an Amazon Lambda Function?
- The Simplest Possible EC2 Web Server Setup Using Terraform (On AWS)
- Serverless on AWS Lambda: A Comprehensive Comparison Of Approaches (Serverless Framework vs SAM vs Terraform vs CloudFormation)
- 3 Simple Serverless Beginner Projects Ideas
- Misconceptions of Serverless: 5 Things You Thought AWS Lambda Did… But It Doesn’t.
- How to Use AWS KMS in AWS Lambda
- The Ultimate Terraform Workflow: Setup Terraform (And Remote State) With Github Actions
- Master the AWS Lambda Console: A Comprehensive Walkthrough.
- AWS Queues And Lambda Processing: A Simple, Quick Walkthrough.
- Create An AWS S3 Website Using Terraform And Github Actions
- Where (And How) to Start Learning AWS as a Beginner
- How To Get AWS Lambda Logs Into CloudWatch
- Set Up AWS Lambda With An ALB (Load Balancer)
- AWS Lambda on Github Actions: How To Send Zipped Artifacts to AWS S3
- AWS access keys — 5 Tips To Safely Use Them.
- AWS networking fundamentals: A simple guide for software engineers.
- Your personal AWS setup (and how to not get hacked)
Observability & Monitoring
- You’re Alerting Wrong: The Why & How Of Setting An AWS Lambda Alarm Using Error Rate Percentages.
- How To Setup Monitoring / Observability On Existing Software (e.g. A Web API): A Practical 5 Step Guide.
- You’re Logging Wrong: What One-Per-Service (“Phat Event”) Logs Are and Why You Need Them.
- How To Get AWS Lambda Logs Into CloudWatch
Software Engineering Careers
- The Secret Of Web Development BootCamps And How To Use Cloud To Your Advantage
- Reader Question: Which AWS Certificates Should You Start With If You’re A Junior?
- The Software Career You Didn’t Think To Consider — Professional Services
- How to Coach: A Cheat Sheet
- Writing A Punchy Junior Software Developer Cover Letter: A Case Study.
- An inside look at my favourite apps
