AWS
AWS certifications cost money and time to prepare and people seek different benefits. But are they worth doing? At the time of writing I hold all AWS Foundational, Associate, and Professional certifications. My answer is yes. But not for the reasons most people may think. I will explain my experience and why.
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Business
Reducing cost is an addicting drug for its immediate dollar feedback to your pockets. You taste it once and start wanting to reduce more and more. You’ll lose features, performance, and customers, but rationalize it’s worth a certain tradeoff. Sometimes, it is a good idea. But when the spiral becomes the main focus, you are in a DANGER zone. I saw this happen 3 times, in a startup, in a medium business, and in a Fortune500. I share a story from my own experience to explain the danger and opportunity of reducing costs.
Read more “Cost Optimization can save or destroy a company”
Artificial Intelligence
This has been a joint project of NVIDIA and AWS Community Builder in Machine Learning program.
This article describes the architecture of the state-of-the art Spam Detection Engine of C-Suite Labs consisting of multiple inter-dependent distinct classifiers delivering real-time, high-performance superior accuracy with minimum required manual review.
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ARM
In this article, we would like to share ESW Capital’s experience with migrating one of our key software development products – DevSpaces – to Graviton3.
Read more “AWS Graviton3 Adoption in ESW Capital”
Decisions
Everyday we make important decisions. In hindsight, everyone knows the right choice, but how can we do that ahead of time? My intent is to explain priceless mistakes that destroy companies and people, and provide decisional guidance from my experience. False confidence is worse than ignorance.
Read more “The most important decisions and leadership”
AWS
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AWS
We write to share our experience and reflections upon being the first students, and graduates (Jiri & Ermanno) of the FinOps Foundation’s FinOps Certified Professional certification program.
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AWS
Forecasting is the process of making predictions based on our assumptions about the factors driving the data of interest and its actual past and present values. The key value of having accurate forecasts is that they allow to be proactive, rather than reactive.
Read more “Usage+Spend Forecasting on AWS with FinOps Foundation’s Best Practices”
Business
An important indicator of success for a Company is whether it survives 5 years. In the USA only 35% do. According to the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, Entrepreneurs get involved into their business plans, they think their great plan is an exception. Unfortunately, this is builder bias. 35% is a global statistic, meaning regardless of quality and sector, your startup has 2 chances in 3 to fail. Accept and live with it.
Read more “Shall I open a start up?”
Artificial Intelligence
I present my distilled view of some important applications of ML, and explain the full procedure from ML to AI, when it makes sense to invest in it. I am grateful for my direct experience, business and social engagement with Companies, Projects, and key people that have contributed to my vision. Machine Learning is a vast and prolific topic where people and Companies do make mistakes. ML is not a magic crystal ball. Machines can be more accurate at recognizing patterns than humans, but not supernatural intelligence that magically extracts information where it doesn’t exist. We should always challenge and interpret results.
Read more “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence”