Cloud Architect Staffing of North Carolina

09/23/2022

What's going on CASNC Family. My nephew Noah is head of his class in Reading and I would like to support him by sharing this with you to help him teach his goals. Thank you all for your support as reading is so fundamental to our youth.

Noah just started a reading project with Eastern Elementary School. Click here to learn more.

04/25/2022

2140/mo at 5 sales a week to 10,700/mo at 25 sales a week.

It sells itself. We are hiring for you to do this on the side, part time to sell 5 a week to make the 2140/mo. If you want to kick it into high gear and sell 25 sales a week then we'll pay you 10,700/mo. Not bad for money you made from your laptop huh?

We're not new to internet marketing. I was one of the pioneers selling services and products online in 2004. This company is one of my brainchildren a spinoff from Affordable Books back in 2014.

Who am I. And Why am I hiring. You can read about me im the owner of Green Books Publishing at or on or find one or more of my books on Amazon . com just go to Amazon . com and type in my whole name Welbon Omar Salaam. My Book is sold on Walmart . com as well.

I own many brands that help people on many different levels. I want to help the economy by employing as many sales associates as can do the job and make themselves wealthier by having their full time job as well as be an Independent Sales Associate for GreenBooks Publishing. Let's go. Make that money. I'm proud of you already. You do need a resume though. This is a real job. On the side of course. But real nonetheless. Peace. Yeah you have a straightforward but thoughful boss that wants you to live your life to the fullest.

Here is the link you will be Sharing to make your 50% commissions.

https://www.facebook.com/welbonomarsalaam.business/posts/344272117493621?d=m
Remember to send me the name of the People you share it with. Their names will go into your file for Pending Commissions. When their name appears under a sale, you will immediately receive a PayPal Commission from us.

Please note:
Oh we don't play about the money. When we get paid, YOU get paid. There was a quote that said: "Young Man... Never come between a man and his meal. " Dave Chappelle. Mehhh... we take that to heart. All of our kids have to get fed, clothed, sent to school, raised, reared, etc... we all have a job to do in this world to be better to one another. ( dont get me ranting about being kind. (You can check my YouTube channel for that under WelbonWork)

Let's go!!!

04/25/2022

We are looking to hire a creative floral designer to design, create, and sell standard and customized floral arrangements to customers. The floral designer's responsibilities include advising customers on suitable floral arrangement selections, wrapping completed floral arrangements, unpacking and organizing deliveries, and ensuring that the floral shop is clean and well-organized. You should also be able to participate in various exhibitions to attract customers.

To be successful as a floral designer, you should keep abreast of emerging styles and trends in floral design. Ultimately, an exceptional floral designer should be able to demonstrate excellent organizational skills and ensure that ordered floral arrangements are delivered to customers in a timely manner.

Floral Designer Responsibilities:

Ensuring that flowers are properly watered and stored to prevent wilting.
Selecting and arranging flowers and decorative items to create standard and customized floral arrangements.
Serving in-store customers and processing payments.
Maintaining an adequate supply of wires, foams, ribbons, tapes, and other decorative supplies.
Ordering fresh flowers from wholesalers and growers as required.
Maintaining an accurate record of floral arrangement orders, special requests, and delivery information.
Advising customers on the proper care and maintenance of their selected floral arrangements.
Consulting with clients to determine their preferences and specifications before designing customized floral arrangements.
Floral Designer Requirements:

5 years of experience in the floral industry
High school diploma or GED.
Certification from the American Institute of floral designers is advantageous.
Proven floral design experience.
Extensive wedding experience
Sound knowledge of different flower types, arrangement styles, and flower conditioning.
Excellent organizational skills.
Effective communication skills.
Exceptional customer service skills.
Artistic and creative.
Detail-oriented.

11/21/2021

Conclusion
There is a lot of work involved with standing up and maintaining cloud infrastructure. Startups have it hardest because they have no time, and often, their skillset is lacking when it comes to DevOps. What you can do is focus on the essentials. Security, Stability, and if you have the time, Scalability.

ServiceBot helps you scale your SaaS by automating deployments (CI/CD), managing your subscriptions, and removing common points of friction between you and your customers. Check it out https://servicebot.io/

11/21/2021

Containerization

Tools like Docker and Kubernetes are great for scaling
An easy win when it comes to scaling is to containerize your application. Check out Docker for a good guide. Here are some tips:

Allow configuration of your app via environment variables. Things like database info and initial admin username/password will go a long way when it comes to building a CI/CD pipeline and automating your app deployment.
Keep as much state out of your container as possible. This will allow for stateless deployments via tools like Kubernetes.
Install your modules as part of the build process to reduce dependencies and image size.

11/19/2021

Scalability ?
??In most cases when it comes to scalability, You Aren’t going to need it (when starting out).?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

If you have the time, the will, and the skills (or money), putting some effort into scalability could give you future benefits. If not, I’d recommend ignoring it and focusing on the previous two points.

Focus on delivering your product to your first 5 customers, not your first 1,000. The best you can do when it comes to building scalable infrastructure is think about design principals while building your app so it wont be too much work to get going when it’s finally time to scale. I should know — I’ve fallen for the over-engineering trap many, many times.

11/18/2021

Secret Management
API keys, credentials, configurations, and all sensitive data needs to be managed. I’m always hesitant when placing this kind of data on the cloud, not only because I don’t know what the cloud provider can look at, but also because if they get my account, all my secrets become exposed.

Keep as many secrets local as possible.
Don’t hardcode secrets into your application — create configuration files you can store outside of app code.
Don’t store secrets in a public Github repo (be wary of the cloud in general).
Avoid plaintext when storing user passwords and your own secrets

11/18/2021

??Make sure to document your auto-start method and boot scripts. Keep code in version control or you will risk trouble when it comes to scale due to mystery code you forgot about.??
Security ?
Security is unfortunately overlooked when it comes to MVP philosophy. People just don’t see the value gained for the time investment needed. This is a form of dangerous gambling, as a security breech could cause severe loss of data, customer trust, and time. Here are some basic things you can do to get started with a security mindset.

SSL
Nowadays, SSL is basically a requirement for a modern SaaS app with many users refusing to use applications without https support. Tools like Let’s Encrypt make getting certificates easy and free. https://letsencrypt.org/

11/17/2021

Automatic service restarting in case of application crash
Applications are not always stable and can be prone to crash at awkward times. A good way to maintain stability is to have a tool which can automatically restart.

NodeJS — Forever https://github.com/foreverjs/forever
or PM2 https://github.com/Unitech/pm2
General — Check this post on how to restart processes using bash scripts https://stackoverflow.com/questions/696839/how-do-i-write-a-bash-script-to-restart-a-process-if-it-dies

Always ensure there are enough resources available
One of the most common reasons for server downtime is servers running out of resources. I’ve had SQL servers die from running out of disk space and production applications die from running out of memory. Setting up monitoring of resources is a good way to mitigate this risk.

AWS — CloudWatch is a good tool for monitoring. You can set up email alerts on specific events. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

GCP — Stackdriver monitoring provides similar functionality, and also integrates with messaging systems like Slack.
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/

Cloud Agnostic — Crontab is good again for this kind of task, but you will need to write a script which will check system resources and send emails when they reach your threshold.

A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever) - GitHub - foreversd/forever: A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)

11/16/2021

? ?Make sure to test your backup restore method or risk what happened to GitLab, where all 5 of their backup methods failed because they never tested the restoration.??
Automatic service restarting in case of server reboot
There are two parts to automatic restarting. One, when your app crashes, does it start up again? And two, when your server reboots, does your app start up automatically?

Crontab —Crontab is a useful tool that lets you schedule jobs easily. Perhaps the simplest approach to auto-start your stack is to create a crontab job that gets run on reboot — See this guide on how to do that.

/etc/init.d — Most systems support init.d scripts. With init.d you can define scripts which can be started at boot and also support stop, start, and status commands (eg. service start myscript) to give you more control over your applications. It’s a bit more complex than a crontab, but it gives you more features — See this post to set up an init.d script.

If you are interested in the differences between these methods, check out This stack exchange post.

11/15/2021

Restoring from catastrophic failure (Automatic Backups)
You know the worse case scenario — you bricked your server and disk. The minimum viable solution to this is to have scheduled, automated backups taken so you prevent data loss.

Depending on your cloud provider, there are a few different options you can take. Snapshotting disks is generally the simplest way to do a minimum viable backup process, but more advanced (and more stable) methods include database specific backups (dumping the database) and distributed systems.

AWS
If you are using Amazon, I would recommend using CloudWatch. It lets you create scheduled jobs (such as automatic snapshots)
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/TakeScheduledSnapshot.html

GCP
Google allows you to schedule snapshots as well
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/create-snapshots

Cloud Agnostic
Don’t want to lock your backup process to your cloud provider? Your most important data will be the database and any uploads that may be provided. For a database, you should look to write a script that periodically dumps the database and sends the data to a secure location (private s3 bucket, distributed file system, etc.) This will be more prone to error than a platform specific method, however, so be wary.

11/14/2021

Startup DevOps is hard
There are a lot of things to worry about as a startup. Marketing, product development, keeping your team together. Everything tends to take the “Minimum viable” pattern of getting the bare minimum up so you don’t crash and burn.

As an enterprise cloud architect, I know first hand how much work can be done in the field of DevOps. As a startup founder, I also know how little time you have to spend on things — it’s more like you have to spend time on all the things at once.

Cloud Infrastructure unfortunately also tends to follow this rule, and all the “best practices” in the field tend to follow patterns that require a large amount of time investment, something startups definitely don’t have.

With this guide, I hope to give you an overview of what a “minimum viable cloud infrastructure” can look like, with a focus on stability, security, and scalability.

Stability ?
When looking at the stability of your cloud infrastructure, there are a few key points to focus on when developing minimum viable cloud infrastructure. Restoring from catastrophic failure, automatic restart, and making sure there are enough resources available. If you focus on these three things, you should be in a pretty good place in terms of your uptime.