CloudLife, Business, and Persistence with Ryan Ryke

In this episode, Bill Kennedy interviews Ryan Ryke, founder of CloudLife Consulting, focusing on AWS and cloud computing. They discuss the challenges of understanding AWS billing, the importance of managing cloud storage, and the benefits of using services like Cloud Run and Fargate. The conversation also touches on the evolution of engineering perspectives on complexity, the shift towards simpler infrastructure solutions, and personal experiences with technology.  00:00 Introduction 00:30 What is Ryan Doing Today? 9:00 Cloud Run Experience 13:00 Handling Complexity 21:00 Running Local LLMs 25:30 First Memory of a Computer 33:20 Entering University 36:30 Relevant Education 42:00 Early Industry 53:00 Trading Stocks 1:05:00  Discovering AWS  1:10:00 Starting a Business 1:16:00 Maintaining Steady Clients 1:22:00 Contact Info  Connect with Ryan:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanryke X: https://x.com/itsacloudlife99 Email: ryan@cloudlife.io Mentioned in this Episode: CloudLife Consulting: https://www.cloudlife.io/ Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/ Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog! Online Courses : https://ardanlabs.com/education/  Live Events : https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/  Blog : https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog  Github : https://github.com/ardanlabs