https://andrewalexander.io/ Recent content on Andrew Alexander Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2017. All rights reserved. Sat, 08 Jul 2017 11:48:33 -0400 https://andrewalexander.io/post/route53-as-dns/ Sat, 08 Jul 2017 11:48:33 -0400 https://andrewalexander.io/post/route53-as-dns/ I recently undertook a journey to transfer my DNS hosting from Namecheap to Amazon’s Route53 service. Doing so wasn’t as straight-forward as I would have hoped, and so I am writing this post to go over some of the challenges I had and what I learned in the process. First off: I don’t think I will ever really understand DNS fully. Every time I think I’ve got a solid handle on the basics, I learn something new about what should have been DNS fundamentals and it forces me to entirely rethink the flow of how I thought things were working. https://andrewalexander.io/about/ Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewalexander.io/about/ I am a software engineer, cloud architect, and part-time technology teacher/mentor. I have very strong opinions on buzzwords, and I will probably make some kind of a pun within the first 5-10 minutes of any conversation. IT Interests and Experience I have professional experience working with a whole lot of individual services within Amazon Web Services (AWS) in order to build applications, systems, and various environments/platforms. Most of those included setting up Docker-based deployments (with docker-compose or ECS; hoping to get to play with Kubernetes soon) when possible, designing and implementing data ingestion/delivery pipelines, and using/setting up/configuring continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) tools and servers. https://andrewalexander.io/contact/ Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewalexander.io/contact/ Much easier to just use the contact info on my keybase profile. The only thing missing there is my LinkedIn, which is more or less my resume. See the About page to find out more about me, how I think, and what I like to think about.