Martin Beauvais Blog

Millions of customers, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises, rely on the powerful and flexible infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Designed to meet diverse application requirements, AWS offers a robust and reliable infrastructure that encompasses a global network of computers deployed in numerous countries. To effectively manage this infrastructure, AWS leverages a well-defined and logical component structure specific to its network. Conceptually, this infrastructure can be represented as follow:

Over the last decade, I have had several opportunities to work with AWS technologies and become familiar with a number of its services such as S3, RDS, and EC2. However, my knowledge of these services is somewhat shallow, as I tend to learn only the minimum required to complete the tasks assigned by my clients. This is the reality of consultancy - few clients will pay you to learn new technologies.

Why I Started a Personal Blog As a senior software consultant, finding contracts has never been a problem for me. So why did I decide to start a personal blog? After some introspection, I came up with a number of compelling reasons: Hone My Writing Skills and Build Confidence English is not my first language, and I’ve always struggled with writing in English. However, I know that writing is a valuable skill that can always be improved.

Here we go! I’m taking time off from consulting. I decided to create my own personal web site. This is it. It’s a start and I expect it will evolve over time. I’m not using Wordpress though. I use Hugo, I’ll explain the reasons why and the technology stack I use in follow up posts.