Amazon Web Services in Action
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Hello there,
This week, I finished reading Amazon Web Services in Action and have a few suggestions to share. Many software engineers struggle with learning system design, and I believe that setting up a production-ready WordPress installation is a great, hands-on way to start exploring system design concepts.
Things I've been exploring recently:
- Amazon Web Services in Action
- Linux Command Line for Engineers and Researchers
Amazon Web Services in Action
Just finished reading this book this week!
I had a lot of fun with AWS DevOps tools and learned several system design concepts.
The book is easy to read, but I needed a month to master all the essential AWS tools and be able to deploy a production-ready web service.
Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition
by Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig
Released: March 2023
Publisher: Manning
ISBN: 9781633439160
If you are learning Amazon Web Services, I suggest this book and maybe a personal project that you are really motivated to work on. This will give you a real reason to learn things in detail.
In my case, I went deep into learning all the details to deploy a production-ready WordPress website:
- Domain management and SSL certificates
- AWS IAM User management
- AWS S3 for backup and CDN
- AWS Certificate Manager
- AWS CloudFront distribution for CDN
- AWS SES for transactional email and newsletter
- AWS RDS - Relational Database Service
- AWS ELB - Elastic Load Balancing
- AWS EC2 setup
- Linux configuration: MySQL, NGINX, Redis, PHP 8.4, etc.
- Fail2ban for basic security
- Free Cloudflare WAF rules
- WordPress installation and configuration
If you think a production-ready WordPress is a toy project, it is maybe because you have no idea about all the struggles to have a safe, fast, and responsive website. I learned tons about system design with this adventure and I recommend.
For the Linux configuration, you can either develop your own bash script or learn Ansible to automate the tasks.
🎁 If you want to learn more about bash script you can check out my free ebook Linux Command Line for Engineers and Researchers.
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