Hi. I'm Scott

In BC-19 * , my mornings started at 5:45 am by dragging myself out of bed, walking the dog, getting ready for work, and then commuting into the office via bus or train. Activities during my commute included: general web surfing, reviewing my calendar, processing email, and the occasional conference call. By the time I got into the office, I was mostly prepared for my day.  A blank notebook, with a cup of coffee When my employer opted to close the office and initiate a remote-work strategy, I took the opportunity to review my mornings and see if I needed to make any changes. I had heard about Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning routine and thought it might be worth a look.  If you aren't familiar with The Miracle Morning, its a set of six activities that prepare you for a successful day. These activities include: Silence, Affirmations, Visualizations, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing (journaling). These activities end up with the nifty acronym SAVERS.  I'm not a keen adopter of thi...

I've been listening to a lot of LastWeekInAWS podcasts and on Twitter. One of the regular conversations that happens in both is Multi-Cloud, meaning should one use more than one cloud provider for the purposes of making your service more available and/or reducing vendor lock-in. The answer here is almost always ' Dear lord, NO! '.  But, multi-cloud does make sense with some limited use cases. Let's take a look.  Use Case #1: Serving Government Users AWS, Azure, and GCP all offer some type of segmented services specifically for government workloads. If your company's application portfolio includes serving governments and businesses, then deploying to multiple clouds is almost a requirement.  Services deployed to the government cloud are usually separate release schedules than the worldwide GA releases. Updates to data engines, connecting services, and security features all require a more indepth review in order to be certified for use. Therefore, deciding on the bes...

Don't call it a comeback, but I'm recommitting to doing more writing. Why start writing now? There are many reasons. I've been doing a lot of reading and a lot of learning. For me, writing enhances my learning process, particularly if I can explain what I've learned. Rather than simply re-writing what I learned in a journal, I thought I'd share what I learned.  There are a number of impediments to simply sharing my learning on social media:  My employer has some strong controls in place to restrict social media access. Facebook and  Instagram have a hard block. Twitter has read-only access; I can browse, but can't like or (re)tweet. I'm not comfortable yet with trying to upload YouTube or TicTok.  Generally, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are a tragic dumpster fire. Rather than throw my fuel onto that fire, I want to control my own message in my own way.  With blogger, at least I can write in rich text and post away. So, I'm going to try out the email-t...