Jim Counts
Cloud/DevOps Architect
Escondido, California, United States
Jim Counts is a Cloud and DevOps architect specializing in unblocking and accelerating enterprises, large and small, as they move from traditional to cloud-native architectures. With over twenty years of experience, Jim found his niche early on building dependable automated systems and now focuses on making infrastructure management repeatable, reliable, and sustainable. Jim holds a BA in Economics from Humboldt State University in Northern California. Later he returned home to the opposite end of California to earn an MS in Computer Science from CSU San Marcos.
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HA/DR for Developers
Are you worried that a transition to DevOps will upset your work/life balance? Have you ever had to redesign a cloud solution after finding it hasn't met requirements for availability and recoverability? As organizations adopt DevOps practices, developers must understand High Availability and Disaster Recovery terms and concepts to ensure they've incorporated these qualities into their solution architectures. How can you architect a system so it "never" goes down? While 100% reliability may not always be possible, you can ensure disasters are rare and short-lived. Get back your work/life balance and sleep easy without worrying about whether your production system is running.
From Launch Pad to Landing Zone: DevOps Governance with Terraform
DevOps project sprawl is real! Large organizations with many teams need to support a variety of configurations from infrastructure governance to domain-specific app deployments, all while enforcing good security practices like least privilege for each team. Maintaining these controls by hand leads to complexity, stagnation, and insecure shortcuts. In this session, you'll learn how Terraform can automate this configuration--using Terraform--and make doing the right thing easy!
Microsoft Azure + AI Conference Fall 2021 Sessionize Event
Automation + DevOps Summit Sessionize Event
KCDC 2021 Sessionize Event
Jim Counts
Cloud/DevOps Architect
Escondido, California, United States
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