At the Apsara Conference 2020 I shared with the public why I chose Alibaba Cloud: “I’ve been involved in Chinese culture in a way for some years, and I’m also very familiar with Taobao and Alibaba in general. I’m always amazed how strong all the internal systems [are] and [by] the experience they have. When […]

El próximo 24 de Septiembre haré un pequeño webinar (15 minutos). En esta sesión descubriremos el ecosistema Serverless de Alibaba Cloud e introduciremos los servicios y herramientas que este proveedor cloud nos ofrece para poder correr nuestras aplicaciones de forma más eficiente.   El webinar será en Español.   Temas Qué es Serverless Familia de […]

Cloud providers, specially those ranked higher like Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud or Amazon Web Services, tend to follow very scrupulously all regulations everywhere they have a data center or PoP (point of presence). In the case of Alibaba Cloud, we are talking about a big number of those, both international and regional certifications to assure […]

When you start your journey around deploying services in China, soon you realise that is not the same as in the rest of places. You even feel that your prior DevOps/Ops experience doesn’t help much on this matter. Suddenly, you feel you need help from companies who specialise in Chinese Clouds.     Why is […]

El miércoles 15 de julio Robert Walters me entrevistó, en directo, sobre la presencia del Cloud de Alibaba, y las oportunidades que ofrece este tipo de tecnología en general a aquellas empresas que estén poniendo en marcha planes de digitalización, expansión internacional e innovación.   Vídeo de la entrevista A continuación os dejo el vídeo […]

Today was published my new article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud (阿里云), named “Create a Cross-Region Active-Active Application on Alibaba Cloud“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Create a Cross-Region Active-Active Application on Alibaba Cloud  

Today was published my new article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud (阿里云), named “Setting up GitOps with Alibaba Cloud OSS and GitHub Actions“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Setting up GitOps with Alibaba Cloud OSS and GitHub Actions  

Vídeo sobre cómo crear una instancia ECS en Alicloud, fácil y rápido. En español.

Today was published my new article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud (阿里云), named “Working with Tengine and OpenResty“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Working with Tengine and OpenResty  

Las empresas que buscan conectarse con el mercado digital de China muy pronto se dan cuenta de la necesidad de disponer de infraestructura local en dicho país. Con más de la mitad del mercado IaaS (nube pública) en China, Alibaba Cloud puede convertirse en el socio que estás buscando. Además, debido a que la compañía […]

There is a new podcast in town! Well, “Cloudcast” in this case 😅 Thanks to the Alibaba Cloud Academy I got invited to be part of the first edition of the program! Listen to the audio     Check the original live stream

As you may know, I’m a fan of the Alibaba Cloud Academy since it came to existence. Their way to structure the certifications is unique and really teaches you how to leverage the cloud just the way you want. I personally have a number of certifications from them. My way was to first learn from […]

In this article I’ll go through the advantages of using Aliyun Linux, a CentOS-based Linux distribution developed and maintained by Alibaba Cloud. Compared to other available Virtual Machines like Debian/Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS (amongst others), Aliyun Linux is made in the cloud and for the cloud.     Alibaba optimised this distribution to the point that, […]

A terraform module to create a private Container Registry namespace and a RAM role able to pull/push from the namespace created. Alicloud Terraform Module. NOTE: This module uses AccessKey and SecretKey from profile and shared_credentials_file. If you have not set them yet, please install aliyun-cli and configure it. Architecture Diagram After using this module, the […]

When dealing with critical ECS instances, specially the ones running our applications, many times we worry about their performance all the time, sometimes to the point in where we need to pay or learn to use a number of platforms in order to monitor it. Although you can create automatic alarms using CloudMonitor, sometimes you […]