Connecting and Deploying Amazon ElastiCache
by Tom Compagno
Stop struggling to build and maintain a caching system. Learn how to quickly deploy and setup connections to a cache as a service and never worry about patching servers again.
What you'll learn
Building and maintaining servers and caches to support your applications can be a time-consuming job. In this course, Connecting and Deploying Amazon ElastiCache, you will gain the ability to deploy complex caches as a service. First, you will learn how to create and connect to a simple Redis cluster. Next, you will enhance your new knowledge by building a more advanced cluster and see ways to scale and protect your cache and its data. Finally, you will explore Memcached as an alternative caching technology and how to properly deploy to maintain max performance and minimize costs. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of ElastiCache needed to maximize the data needs of a complex system architecture.
About the author
Tom has spent over 24 years across multiple industries building products and platforms including: banking, tele-communications, e-commerce, retail, and manufacturing. He has designed and built recommendation engines, consumer banking platforms, and mobile applications, as well as business and consumer facing e-commerce SaaS platforms. Recently he leveraged his technology background to build business, product, and IT strategies for companies like O.C Tanner, State Farm, and USAA Insurance. He is ... morepassionate about creating high performing agile teams, and building software architectures that are lean yet scalable and perfectly fulfill the business need. He developed a keen interest in Lean principles while building manufacturing systems - and is constantly looking for new ways to leverage those concepts to improve IT.
Tom holds a dual bachelor degree in Computer Science and Business Information Systems and an MBA from Westminster College/Gore School of Business.