Tailored Tech Talk

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Tailored Tech Talk episodes

  • Ep. 8 - Disaster Recovery

    In this episode, Ben & Chris discuss disaster recovery and building a disaster recovery plan you can be proud of. They go over multiple DR strategies, pros and cons of each of them as well as specific AWS services you can use to satisfy your company's recovery requirements.


    • The AWS Disaster Recovery whitepaper with the scale image we discussed in the podcast.
    • Building Runbooks and DR plans are as important as building documentation on any service or product, just like we discussed in last week's episode - Ep. 7 - Documenting your way to a Vacation
    • Rundeck by PagerDuty

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      Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      34 min
    • Ep. 7 - Documenting your way to a Vacation

      In this episode, Ben & Chris discuss a vacation season requirement – documentation. Whether you’re building a product, supporting a client or just needing someone else to run payroll, documenting for your coworkers is imperative for business continuity and the key to a great time away from the computer.

       

      Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      30 min
    • Ep. 6 - Turning Paper Into Data

      In this episode, Ben & Chris talk about converting paper into data using a tool called Amazon Textract. Textract enables you to automatically extract text, handwriting and data from scanned documents. We discuss a customer business problem we solved replacing an old OCR scanner with cheaper scanners uploading documents to Textract and saving the customer a lot of money and time in the process.

       

      Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      25 min
    • Ep. 5 - Amazon ECS and Deploying Docker Containers

      In this episode, Ben & Chris talk about deploying and scaling web applications using Amazon ECS. They focus on approaches they take when using ECS and container orchestration.

       

      Highlights:


      • Overview of Docker Containers
      • Overview of Amazon ECS & Container Orchestration
      • In-depth discussion of Fargate Spot & Spot instances for cost control
      • Standing up a Web Service and auto scaling the service
      • Scheduling Jobs in ECS
      • Reasons to use Amazon ECS tasks over Lambda functions

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        Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

        38 min
      • Ep. 4 - The Low Code/No Code Lowdown

        In this episode, Ben & Chris deep dive into No Code & Low Code platforms – the promise of these tools, where they struggle to deliver and the ones we still love and use daily.

         

        Platforms we mention on this week’s episode:

         

        • Zapier
        • Webflow
        • Middlelink (Alphi)
        • Make
        • Retool
        • Airtable
        • Typeform
        • Outsetta
        • Power Automate
        • Glide


          • Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

          30 min
        • Ep. 3 - The Technology and Automation Roadmap

          In this episode, Ben & Chris delve into the essential role of technology and automation in modern businesses. They share their approach to consultation, pain point analysis, and creating a custom technological roadmap to guide businesses towards effective automation. Emphasizing a return on investment (ROI) driven mindset, they also discuss the significance of planning and incremental improvement in successful automation strategies.


          Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

          29 min
        • Ep. 2 - Data Warehouses and Lakes

          Ben and Chris talk about building Data Warehouses and Lakes with ETL (or ELT!) Pipelines, Visualizations, and more.

           

          Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

          28 min
        • Ep. 1 - Intros & Print Automation

          Ben and Chris introduce the podcast, themselves and talk about building a custom printing solution for a customer with some other topics (Ferngully,

          really?) coming up along the way.

           

          Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

          25 min

        About Tailored Tech Talk

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        A weekly look into the world of DevOps and tailored software solutions hosted by Ben Hayden and Chris Reynolds.