Weekly-Update on AutoSpotting

Weekly Update - 17 Mar 2023

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to this week’s status update.

Let’s dive tight in!

AutoSpotting Architecture changes as result of my current customer onboarding

This week was another one largely focused on AutoSpotting development, most of the work resulting from the conversation I had with the relatively large enterprise customer I started to onboard last week to AutoSpotting.

This is high priority work for me, since their PoC alone would be bigger than all my other customers combined, so I did my best to make it work for them.

Weekly Update - 13 Mar 2023

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to my latest weekly progress report.

I’m a bit late to this week’s update, I normally do these on Fridays as a way for me to reflect on the previous week, but on Friday I was busy helping a new potentially large AutoSpotting customer get started.

That didn’t leave me enough time to write this, but I’ll talk about the opportunity and the work itself towards the end of this progress report.

Weekly Update - 3 Mar 2023

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to this week’s progress report.

This is also a bit of a special one, since it marks more than 6 months since I left AWS to double down on AutoSpotting development.

Without further ado, let’s dive right in!

Terraform updates

I started the week by working on bringing the AutoSpotting Terraform module in sync with the CloudFormation template, after previously it was rolling out an ancient release of AutoSpotting from October 2021, with lots of known issues.

Weekly Update - 24 Feb 2023

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, and welcome to this week’s update.

Without further ado, let’s dive right in.

Little recap from last week

In my last week’s update I mentioned how I’ve been working most of the week helping a new customer onboard.

They were reluctant to run the latest AutoSpotting version because of their blue-green deployment strategy, but they wanted to try an older version that still works in the legacy cron mode. They were initially very happy about the way I supported them to use an older version, and even said it was the best support they ever got from a vendor.

Weekly Update - 17 Feb 2023

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to this week’s progress update.

This was a shorter week than usual, as Monday had some family emergency and largely took the day off, but it was otherwise a pretty productive week, with many things moving forward and a lot of things to write about, so this is probably my longest update so far, but more technical than usual.

It was again a week focused on development work, worked on multiple things but still on the same themes of reducing friction for new users and making life easier for existing users.

Weekly Update - 10 Feb 2023

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update.

(I forgot to publish this last week here on beehiiv, so I’m now publishing it together with the current week’s update. The current week’s update will be scheduled 12h later, in order to accommodate beehiiv restrictions, sorry about that.)

LeanerCloud GUI

This week I continued the development of the new LeanerCloud GUI.

I made a lot of progress, the GUI is now able to estimate the savings, updating the estimates based on the selected ASGs and their configuration, and also can write a few of the commonly used tags, as well as reading the values set in the previous runs.

Weekly Update - 3 Feb 2023

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, and welcome to this week’s update.

Without further ado, let’s dive right in.

LeanerCloud GUI work

I spent most of the week continuing the work I did last week, and here’s a little demo video that shows the progress I made and how the UI looks like so far:

I’d love to hear your feedback about it, and what kind of things you’d like to see in this tool besides what I mentioned in the demo.

Weekly Update - 27 Jan 2023

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, and welcome to this week’s update.

Without further ado, let’s dive right in!

LeanerCloud GUI work

Like I mentioned last week, I started the week by working for a couple of days on the new LeanerCloud GUI tool, that would hopefully remove some of the friction of adopting my tools for new users.

I now have code that reads all ASGs from the current region and generates a little table based on it.

Weekly Update - 20 Jan 2023

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to this week’s progress update. Let’s dive right in!

Savings calculator integration on leanercloud.com

I started the week by integrating the savings calculator spreadsheet I built last week into my leanercloud.com website. I also polished it a bit more and added a screenshot with some figures, to make it clear for people what to expect.

AutoSpotting Intro recording

I then started finally writing some slides about AutoSpotting, something I wanted to do for a long time but was reluctant to do.

Weekly Update - 13 Jan 2023

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello, and welcome to my latest weekly status update.

This week was another good week for me, I’m very happy about my progress.

LinkedIn Outreach

I’ve recently started experimenting with cold outreach to drive some more sales, and I’ve been iterating on my messages.

Over the last weekend I asked for some feedback in one of the online communities I’m in, where I started a thread in which I asked how to make my messages less spammy and intrusive.

Weekly Update - 6 Jan 2023

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, Happy New Year, and welcome to the first weekly update from 2023 and the first one on Beehiiv!

For more context, this is a continuation of my older AutoSpotting, Cloudutil newsletters, and going forward will mirror my current LinkedIn newsletter which I’ve been using for weekly updates for the last few months after I left Amazon AWS. You can check out my previous posts on LinkedIn.