I think I saw a video on LinkedIn about that...

updated 12-Jan 2022

Welcome Builders!

Are you looking to learn more about the cloud or systems design? Are you hoping to get some tips on professional growth? Or, are you keen to learn more about a particular AWS service? In any case, I've curated a list of the 150+ videos I've recoded for LinkedIn since January 2020.

Disclaimer: The opinions presented here are my own, as with everything in life, your mileage may vary.

Fundamentals in 55 a bite-sized video series where I share fundamental concepts in systems design in ~55 seconds

• Welcome to Fundamentals in 55
• What does an Architect do?
• What is Block Storage?
• What is Object Storage?
• What is a Data Model?
• What is a Conceptual Data Model?
• What is a Logical Data Model
• What are SQL Databases?
• What are NoSQL Databases?
• What is BASE?
• What is ACID?
• What are Key Value Databases?
• What are Document Databases?
• What are Performance Databases?
• How is Data like Chemistry?
• How can I work with you?
• What are Microservices?
• How can I network?
• What is the 6th pillar of the WAF?
• What are Graph Databases?

This is My Architecture

• How Orange Theory Fitness impowers members to lead healthier lives with the AWS Cloud
• How IHS Markit developed virtual instructor-led trainings

Getting Started with AWS (take 2)

• Step 0 updated
• Step 0: Establish a knowledge base
• Step 1 updated
• Step 1: Build Something!
• Step 2 updated
• Step 2: AWS Certifications
• What does a Partner Solutions Architect do?
• My path to associate-level AWS Certifications

Real talk time

• Unplugging part 1
• Alone in the wilderness
• Imposter Syndrome
• What to do when you don't know what to say
• Behaviors and practices for inclusion
• Career Pivots 🦆
• See one, do one, teach one
• Congrats Grads...Now what?!
• Making Decisions
• Burnout
• Whimsy
• Whimsy. Again.
• Mental Toughness. It's not just for competitive athletes anymore.
• Growth occurs outside your comfort zone. Yet being uncomfortable is hard. Really hard.
• Work Hard. It's the secret weapon.
• Work Hard. Play Hard. Ruthless Prioritization.
• We live in a paradox, and today is simultaneously the best and worst time to get started learning a new skill.
• My background: Diverse voices and non-traditional backgrounds are crucial in technology! Cloud computing is not a zero-sum game.

Things I wish I'd known (aka professional development)

• Asking (and accepting) feedback as a tool for improvement 
• Giving feedback that makes a difference
• Growing your professional network: part 1
• Growing your professional network: part 2

Technical Overviews

• Tutorial: Scalable and resilient systems architecture
• Creating Scalable Dashboards on AWS Part 1
• Creating Scalable Dashboards on AWS Part 2 
• The AWS Partner Network (APN)  
• Benefits of becoming an APN Partner
• Serverless!
• Meet SAM, the Serverless Application Model
• What's your favorite EC2 type

The Well-Architected Framework

• Building Cloud-Optimized Architectures: The Well-Architected Framework
• What to Expect in a Well-Architected Review
• Reliability and Service Availability
• Security is Job Zero. The Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar 
• Security is Job Zero. The Shared Responsibility Model 
• The Well-Architected Framework Security Operational Excellence Pillar
• Cash is Queen: Best Practices for Cost Optimization
• Reliability and Architecting your System to Proactively Mitigate Disruptions
• Performance Efficiency

Services in 75: Where I spend 75 seconds talking about a random AWS Service

1. Intro
2. Amazon API Gateway
3. Amazon AppStream 2.0
4. Amazon Braket
5. Amazon CloudWatch
6. Amazon Comprehend
7. Amazon DynamoDB
8. Amazon EKS
9. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
10. Amazon Elasticache
11. Amazon FreeRTOS
12. Amazon FsX for Lustre
13. Amazon GuardDuty
14. Amazon Kendra
15. Amazon Lumberyard
16. Amazon Macie
17. Amazon MQ
18. Amazon Personalize
19. Amazon Polly
20. Amazon Redshift
21. Amazon Sagemaker
22. Amazon SNS
23. Amazon Sumerian
24. Amazon Transcribe
25. Amazon VPC
26. Amazon Workspaces
27. AWS Artifact
28. AWS Auto Scaling
29. AWS Batch
30. AWS Budgets
31. AWS Chatbot
32. AWS Cloud Formation
33. AWS Cloud HSM
34. AWS Cloud Map
35. AWS CloudFront
36. AWS Cloudtrail
37. AWS Code Commit
38. AWS Code Pipeline
39. AWS Control Tower
40. AWS DeepComposer
41. AWS DeepLens
42. AWS Device Farm
43. AWS Directory Service
44. AWS DMS
45. AWS Elemental MediaLive
46. AWS Fargate
47. AWS Global Accelerator
48. AWS Glue
49. AWS IoT Button
50. AWS IoT Device Management
51. AWS IoT GreenGrass
52. AWS IoT Sitewise
53. AWS Lambda
54. AWS Management Console
55. AWS OpsWorks
56. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
57. AWS RoboMaker
58. AWS Secrets Manager
59. AWS Serverless Application Repository
60. AWS Shield
61. AWS Step Functions
62. AWS Storage Gateway
63. AWS Systems Manager
64. AWS Transit Gateway
65. AWS Trusted Advisor
66. AWS Wavelength
67. AWS X-Ray
68. Elastic Load Balancing
69. Reserved Instance Reporting
70. Well-Architected Tool

Written Science Articles and General Musings

• Liz's Day Off, or: the Quest to Reconcile Laser-Sharp Focus While Thriving as a Whole Person https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lizs-day-off-quest-reconcile-laser-sharp-focus-while-percak-dennett
• Fish Tacos and flip flops: How SoCal breeds innovation (and what you can do about it) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fish-tacos-flip-flops-how-socal-breeds-innovation-you-percak-dennett
• pH can be so basic: All about pH https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ph-can-so-basic-liz-percak-dennett
• The Air apparent: Why most life needs oxygen https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/air-apparent-liz-percak-dennett
• Why life on Earth is carbon-based https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-life-earth-carbon-based-liz-percak-dennett
• Dear Microbes: Why won't you grow (aka why you can't just culture all the microbes on Earth)
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dear-microbes-why-wont-you-grow-liz-percak-dennett
• Time is on their side: Geologic time and microbial evolution https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-side-how-microbes-able-dominate-nearly-every-liz-percak-dennett
• Microbes like it hot: Extremophiles https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microbes-like-hot-liz-percak-dennett
• Bacteria and Archaea: Kindred microbial cousins https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bacteria-archaea-kindred-microbial-cousins-liz-percak-dennett
• To understand geology, pay attention to the microbes: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understand-geology-pay-attention-microbes-liz-percak-dennett

 The Backstory

I've always loved to communicate. About Science. About Technology. About life. About my experience growing up in rural Alaska before setting off on a non-traditional career path.

Sometimes I still wake up in the morning and groggily check my LinkedIn notifications, blown away that people are actually watching, sharing, and commenting on my videos and articles. I wrote my first LinkedIn article back in 2017, and started posting videos on LinkedIn in March 2020 as a scalability mechanism.

As a female with a PhD in Astrobiology who is now a Solutions Architect, I frequently don't see many people who look, talk, and act like me in similar professional roles. Self-indulgently, I thought that posting videos may be a way to help others fight off imposter syndrome while also learning about AWS and building in the Cloud. I never imagined that each video would get tens of thousands and thousands of views.

Granted, I'm no where near the stratospheric impact like of my science idols Neil Degrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan, or my AWS idol Jeff Barr. Like many a type-A person before me, my quest for objective perfection has frequently hindered my own imperfect ideas from taking flight and getting the chance to grow and evolve. Bias for action >> perfection, and getting your voice out there is much more important than worrying about how many people may listen.

I've curated a list of all videos below, and will keep it evergreen. Deep thanks to everyone who watches and comments. I'm still in awe of how much I get to spend each day learning and being curious.