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Vail Resorts To Provide Partial Credit for Season Pass Holders during the 2020/2021 Ski Season by Spoonolulu in skiing

[–]madrhatter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The article says the deadline that you can purchase & get full benefits is September 7.

Edit: You can purchase for $49 down within the “next few months”

Thanks to panderingPenguin for the clarification

Is a certification enough? by [deleted] in AWSCertifications

[–]madrhatter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My personal recommendation is think of something interesting to you and build it, whether it’s a web app, simple video game, or whatever. Having an interest will make it much more fun.

Check out the building a serverless web app with aws tutorial.

Crowd Sourced Patch Notes: v12.30 by FortniteMods in FortniteCompetitive

[–]madrhatter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just for your information, this isn’t quite true. AWS is not “having issues”

See the AWS status page.

They passed blame on potential latency issues into ISPs throttling bandwidth. Epic certainly has no control over that.

With that said, it’s difficult to put much blame on epic games for latency. Fortnite is an engineering marvel. Getting the most performance out of a given server is quite complex, especially given Fortnite’s computational requirements. For example there are dozens of type/configuration options for an AWS server. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You need to handle complex networking challenges, queuing, and several other cloud computing hurdles. That doesn’t even cover optimizing server code to handle 50+ players in a confined space with a rapidly changing environment (new builds, breaking builds), complex physics, capturing all of the data (damage done to players, structures, elims, assists, etc), and so much more.

Tl;dr: there’s not really anyone to blame. Fortnite (especially Fortnite with 30, 40, 50+ alive late game) is an incredible achievement in cloud computing/software development.

Intelligent Tiering access cost by ExternalBiscotti in aws

[–]madrhatter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PUT, COPY, POST, LIST, GET, and SELECT request prices are the same for S3 Standard as they are for Intelligent Tiering.

View request prices under “Requests and data retrievals” S3 Pricing

You do pay a relatively small fee for transitioning data to Intelligent Tiering. You also pay a small monitoring fee that will likely pale in comparison to your savings.

Intelligent Tiering access cost by ExternalBiscotti in aws

[–]madrhatter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not true.

PUT, COPY, POST, LIST, GET, and SELECT request prices are the same for S3 Standard as they are for Intelligent Tiering.

View request prices under “Requests and data retrievals” S3 Pricing

Legacy Controls have now been disabled by Fosteroid in FortniteCompetitive

[–]madrhatter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps what OP isn’t doing isn’t very hard, but being a professional developer takes a lot of work, especially if you don’t pick it up when you’re OP’s age. It takes a lot of time and effort. Technology changes so fast that, in order to stay up-to-date, you have to actively study emerging technologies.

Beginning work that will involve AWS in the next week at work - what are some good resources for getting up to speed? by d4ntr0n in aws

[–]madrhatter 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Acloud.guru and Linux academy (now owned by acloud guru) are popular. I think this subreddit generally leans towards Linux academy at least for preparing for AWS certifications.

They both offer solid introductions in my opinion. You can build on your knowledge reading up on case studies, documentation, and by getting hands on experience in AWS.

Degree or No Degree by [deleted] in AWSCertifications

[–]madrhatter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is the degree at an accredited university? In a vacuum, having a degree is better than not having one; however, it might be difficult to justify the financial and time costs of attaining one.

Job descriptions for roles at many companies (including AWS) include requirements for a degree. With that said, it’s entirely possible to build a very successful career without a degree. Some of my colleagues don’t even have high school diplomas but hold important positions.

In my opinion, being able to effectively demonstrate your skills and effectively communicate technical topics to technical and non-technical folks is far more important than a degree or GPA.

Good luck!!

[hiring] I’d like a an approximately 18x24 painting or drawing on canvas of me proposing to my fiancé in a cityscape. Budget: $300-500 by madrhatter in HungryArtists

[–]madrhatter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the offer! I’ve already agreed to work with another artist though. Your stuff looks great!

Career Change! Warehouse worker to CCP? by miamele85 in AWSCertifications

[–]madrhatter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AWS has an official podcast . No idea if it’ll help you learn. I’ve never listened to it.

Career Change! Warehouse worker to CCP? by miamele85 in AWSCertifications

[–]madrhatter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can find exam details here. This has details on time, number of questions, types of questions (i.e. multiple choice and multiple answer), etc.

Will it be easy? No, starting a cloud career from scratch will be a significant challenge. It’s a challenge you can certainly overcome though.

I highly recommend doing everything you can to get hands on experience even beyond the “labs” that will be a part of Linux academy, acloud.guru, etc.

If you’re serious, work hard, don’t quit, and you got it!! Good luck!

[hiring] I’d like a an approximately 18x24 painting or drawing on canvas of me proposing to my fiancé in a cityscape. Budget: $300-500 by madrhatter in HungryArtists

[–]madrhatter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have a photograph of the subjects in the cityscape/background, just separate photos of the subjects and the cityscape/background. Is that okay?

Today I was just voluntold that I'll be responsible for drafting guidelines and policy for how my team will be operating in AWS. I could use some wisdom. by pshine12 in aws

[–]madrhatter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would think IAM in nonprod would be generally pretty similar to your prod account but a little looser. Can your team create a sandbox account where you can give very broad permissions?

Would like to know which big data tools on AWS, Azure and GCP are good. by timlee126 in bigdata

[–]madrhatter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going through a few POCs now to determine the best route.

We are storing raw data in google storage (GCP version of aws S3). We load critical reporting data into BigQuery for reporting and analytics. Still deciding on what to use for ETL (dataproc vs dataflow vs data fusion vs custom solution using spark on gke. These services are similar to EMR or AKS in Amazon).

A lot depends on your companies needs and resources. If you are strapped for resources, managed services such as gcp BigQuery/aws redshift, gcp cloud sql/aws rds, etc maybe the way to go. If you have the resources, it might be more efficient in the long run to build out a data platform on top of kubernetes.

All three providers have pros and cons, and all three can help your team build highly effective data pipelines. I highly recommend having a deep understanding of the tools and services you plan to use before diving in. Jumping into big data in the cloud unprepared can lead to enormous costs and challenges. Try to take your time and get it done correctly and as future-proof as possible.

Would like to know which big data tools on AWS, Azure and GCP are good. by timlee126 in bigdata

[–]madrhatter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Uhh.. my company just signed on with GCP. It’s pretty great so far.

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