Or, “Why I decided early in my career not to go into systems administration”

Bootstrapping your Company on Elastic

Beanstalk

The Resume Slide

The Survey Slide

You only have 24 hours in a day (Sleep? Ha!) so no time to work on systems administration

Hiring a systems administrator is expensive

Customers won’t pay you for it, they expect it

Why you might (should?) use Elastic Beanstalk

And its EASY!

Ways to not follow my advice

A Live Demo? Are you insane?

Git Deploys vs S3 Deploys

Doing A Deployment

You Must Monitor Your System

Her Infosec was weak, allowing me to harvest her name, email address, physical address, phone number, friends list and Foursquare checkins. This allowed me to be a perfect guy for her like Phil Connors in “Groundhog’s Day”. Sure it is vaguely creepy but what she doesn’t know can’t hurt her, right?

Moral: You do need to do some Security

How I Met Your Mother

It means “You too?” in latinTypically used to imply the person is being a

hypocrite

Tu Quoque?

Tu Quoque? (continued)

Databases Are Optional (for this talk)

Email is also Optional (for this talk)

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