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Optimizing and Managing Distributed Systems on AWS

In this course, we look at how to deploy, monitor, and tune distributed systems at cloud scale.

Richard Seroter - Pluralsight course - Optimizing and Managing Distributed Systems on AWS
by Richard Seroter
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This course shows how to improve the performance and maintainability of cloud systems on AWS. We look at effectively monitoring systems with CloudWatch, easily deploying systems with Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation, and improving performance through the use of the CloudFront CDN and ElastiCache caching service.

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Richard Seroter - Pluralsight course - Optimizing and Managing Distributed Systems on AWS
Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is a Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, frequent public speaker, author of multiple books on software design and development, and former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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