
If you’ve ever experienced the pain of losing a Minecraft world with diamond armor, a house in the clouds, and a functional roller coaster…well then, you know true sadness! And sometimes, a real-life creeper explodes, something happens to their laptop or to the game files, and we have to start all over.

Behind the scenes, I also help my kids run servers, install mods, and generally tweak the game to their liking.

As a parent of two kids who are crazy about the block building game, I do my fair share of playing along with them, building castles, gathering resources, and defending my home from zombies. Even moving between major cloud providers can be difficult due to subtle, but meaningful, differences in products, acronyms, and company cultures.Įach time I want to learn a new cloud platform, I do it the same way: by hyper-over-engineering a Minecraft server for my kids.

In the past six years as a solution architect, I’ve had to learn AWS, Azure, and most recently Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and the incredible array of technologies, products, and vendors can make it seem like an impossible mountain to climb. Learning a new cloud can be intimidating.
