Michael Wittig
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Faith & Fitness Magazine
It’s not a question – It’s a huge opportunity – a plan, strategy, calling, responsibility, and lifestyle – it’s an eternal game changer. You know that daily life can get difficult.
Easy Healthy Lunches That Kids Can Make
What are children eating for lunch today? How about pizza and french fries? If your child is 1 of the more than 31 million students who eat a school-prepared lunch, those are likely 2 of the main staples she or he will be given. Today’s school lunch foods (even though efforts have been made to improve them) are heavy on the carbs, sugars, salt and preservatives. Raw vegetables and lean meats? Probably not.
How To Do Faith And Fitness With Proper Form
In 2003 I started Faith & Fitness Magazine with the simple message, to build physical and spiritual strength. It was never about doing a Christian version of fitness. From the beginning God has always wanted this ministry to help people to practice the fit lifestyle by living more fully through a deep and abiding faith in Jesus Christ. Not just to do fitness and add some faith nuances to it so you can be blessed but rather to do faith and fitness intentionally with discipline and proper form.
Raw Milk & Deadlifts
In a world of AI, vegetarian hamburgers, baby formula, vanilla scented candles, protein supplements, Photoshop, Genetically Modified Organisms, even BMI – a measurement of fitness, many people in today’s culture find RAW to be revulsive. As we elevate ourselves to be God-like, food, faith, lifestyles and more that are in a natural condition, not processed or refined strike caution, fear, resistance and even hate in all kinds of people. Would you drink raw milk?
The Gym Confessional
Gymnos is the Greek origin of our modern-day word Gym. It means “naked.” GYMNOS articles in Faith & Fitness Magazine are designed to help you ask God to challenge your thinking. In the literal sense, when you’re naked in the locker room there is nothing to hide. That makes most people uncomfortable. Use this scenario to get naked spiritually—be honest, transparent, undisguised and willing to be totally open with yourself and others. All characters in this scenario are fictional.
Mindset: Spirit Free
How are you feeling today? No, switch that because it’s not really about a ‘feeling’ – it’s who you ARE. Are you angry, hurt, frustrated, confused, lonely, addicted, stressed, proud, poor, broke or broken? All that stuff going on inside of you isn’t just your personal battle with some really bad junk that you don’t need. It’s exactly what is holding you back. AND – it’s not just holding you back physically but also mentally and emotionally and especially spiritually.
3 Functional Exercises To Help Busy Moms
When you are a busy mom finding time to work out can sometimes feel daunting. Raising kids requires getting them to school, daycare, and after-school activities on time. It requires planning meals for them, helping them with homework, and taking time to worship as a family. With these responsibilities stacked on top of other household and professional responsibilities we have as adults and mothers, it is no surprise that our own physical health can sometimes take a back seat.
Take Your Training Outdoors
Photos by Justin Greiman. Used by permission of Michael Wittig. It’s too easy to stay in our comfortable surroundings and never venture out. The fear of having to learn something new, do extra work, or ultimately fail may be the cause. The thing we have to remember is that God is always with us so how can we fail? Having the ability to go to your home gym is a blessing. You have access to your favorite machines and be able to chat with your friends between sets.
The Marquesan Adventure of John Minor Maury
Resumen John Minor Maury was a young US navy midshipman, who was found on the South Pacific island of Nuku Hiva by the USS Essex, on 25 October 1813. Decades after the incident, a biographical sketch of Maury appeared which purported to illuminate his adventure, in an account provided by his son. For over 130 years thereafter, the tale of John Maury was based on his son's recollection.
AWS Security Monitoring in 2023: Untangle the chaos
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Spielmannszug "Blau-Weiß" 1928 Essen-Heisingen: Trauer um Heinz Buckstegge
Viel zu früh, kurz vor seinem 73. Geburtstag, verstarb das langjährige Vereinsmitglied Heinz Buckstegge. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Heisingen war er bereits seit frühester Jugend dem Spielmannszug „Blau-Weiß“ 1928 Essen-Heisingen verbunden, war doch sein Vater Heinrich viele Jahre Tambourmajor. Dennoch entschied er sich zunächst für das Schützenwesen, was ihm später zusammen mit seiner Frau Brigitte die Königswürde brachte.
On The Ball Ab Workout
BY: MICHAEL WITTIG PHOTO CREDIT: JUSTIN GREIMAN Stability balls are a great tool not only for the gym, but the home as well. They are inexpensive and can be used in place of a bench for many situations. Also known as the Swiss Ball they are often utilized by physical therapists to aid in rehabilitation for low back-related issues. Physical therapists and chiropractors frequently recommend the use of exercise balls for workouts because of the spine support they can provide.
How to Replicate Your Data with DynamoDB Global Tables
In my last post about Multi-Region AWS Architectures, I discussed how you could reduce end-user latency and increase availability by running your application in multiple regions. I compared AWS services that help you to run your application in various regions at the same time. In this post, we’ll focus on one data store that shines in multi-region architectures: Amazon DynamoDB. Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data structures.
Multi-Region AWS Architectures
Running an application in multiple availability zones (data centers) in a single region is a best practice when architecting on AWS. Interested in learning more about multi-AZ? Take a look at our previous post here. Depending on your availability or latency requirements, you might need to deploy your application among multiple regions. For example, use US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU West (Ireland) to operate your application close to your users.
Enjoying Your Favorite Foods While Dieting
Anybody who follows me knows I have a love for pizza and donuts. I’m also pretty fond of Mexican food and burgers as well if you want to know. I am a firm believer in ‘lifestyle’ eating that is sustainable. This is how I stay in fairly good condition, not competition shape, year around. But there are times when ‘dieting’ is necessary and food intake has to be more controlled and tighter such as when I’m working to cut down a few pounds of body fat in preparation for fitness competitions.
A Leg Up On Calf Development
Photo credit: Justin Greiman By Michael Wittig Genetics does play a big role when it comes to natural calf development. My mom had a huge set of bodybuilding-worthy calves, big and defined, but didn’t work out. Growing up you would never catch me in a pair of shorts. It was always pants to hide my skinny calves and legs. My lower legs were the same size as my ankle before I found my way to the gym.
How to Choose the Best Way to Scale EC2 Instances
Migrating workloads into the cloud — and specifically to AWS — comes with many advantages. You can operate workloads in new ways. When you only pay for what you use and add capacity within minutes, the world of auto-scaling opens up. When your workload is idling, you remove capacity and lower your expenses. When the workload is busy, you add capacity to keep the users happy. An excellent idea that works perfectly in theory. In practice, many pitfalls are waiting for you.
Cost Savings With DynamoDB On-Demand: Lessons Learned
Download the Altoros NoSQL Performance Benchmark 2018. Compare top NoSQL solutions – Couchbase Server v5.5, MongoDB v3.6, and DataStax Enterprise v6 (Cassandra). One of my favorite features that was announced during re:Invent 2018 was DynamoDB On-Demand. With DynamoDB On-Demand, we can use DynamoDB without provisioning capacity. Instead, we pay per request. Sounds amazing, huh?
How to Become an AWS Expert
Save {{ articles[0].views | formatCount}} Views Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free Learn how to migrate and modernize stateless applications and run them in a Kubernetes cluster. If you are just starting to use AWS today, you might think it's going to be hard to catch up. How can you become an AWS expert? How can you know everything about AWS? I asked myself the same questions some time ago. Let me share my answer on how to become an AWS expert.
My Mental Model of AWS
AWS is a complex system that no one can understand end-to-end. As AWS professionals we still have to deal with the AWS system daily. We design for AWS, and we debug our applications running in AWS. How can we deal with a system that is too complex to understand in detail? A good mental model can help us. A mental model is a simple representation of the system that is good enough to predict how the system behaves.
Customized Rate Limiting for API Gateway by Path Parameter, Query Parameter, and More
API Gateway provides a feature to limit the number of requests a client can make per second (rate) and per day/week/month (quota). Rate limiting is very useful to protect your system from resource starvation caused by a client flooding your system with requests. Quotas are more useful to protect against data scrapers or to limit the number of expensive operations a client can perform without paying appropriately.
Hot off the Press: Amazon Web Services in Action Second Edition
We wrote and published the first edition of Amazon Web Services in Action in 2015. Our book quickly became a bestseller. We are still amazed by the positive feedback we receive from our readers every day. Thanks for that! Nevertheless, AWS is changing fast and announces new features every week. So we got back to the keyboard and started updating and extending our book. Today, we are happy to announce that the 2nd edition of AWS in Action is available as printed book and ebook (PDF).
Comparing Serverless Offerings from Alibaba Cloud and AWS
Last weekend, I had the chance to play around with Alibaba Cloud at the DevOps Meetup in my city. An Alibaba Cloud Solution Architect introduced the platform and was well trained on AWS as well, so he could compare both platforms for us. I also spent some time to figure out the details and finally, I ended up with a detailed comparison of the Serverless offering of both platforms.
A Neglected Serverless Data Store: Cloud Directory
Lately, I’ve been having lots of fun with Amazon Cloud Directory. Three months before, Cloud Directory was all new to me. Today, I am convinced that Cloud Directory is a neglected serverless data store that deserves much more attention. Let me explain what Cloud Directory is and why it is an excellent choice in serverless architectures. Cloud Directory is a fully managed, hierarchical data store on AWS. Let’s talk about hierarchical data first.
Encrypting Sensitive Data Stored on S3
S3 comes with a bunch of features to encrypt your data at rest. Data at rest refers to the inactive data stored physically on a disk. Before we dive into encrypting data at rest, I want to highlight that there is also data in use and data in transit. If the data is in memory, it is in use. If the data is on the network, then it is in transit. If you transfer data to S3, it is TLS encrypted by default. This blog post will guide you through all ways to encrypt your S3 data at rest.
Dead Man's Switch With CloudWatch
While writing this article, I'm traveling from Frankfurt to Stuttgart by high-speed train (ICE) with a top speed of 280 km/h. It is reassuring to know that a dead man's switch stops the train immediately if the train driver becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control. Even though you are typically using CloudWatch alarms to make sure a metric does not exceed a threshold, it is also possible to build a dead man's switch with CloudWatch.
AWS Security Primer
I was preparing some AWS Security related training. Soon, I realized that this topic is too huge to fit into my brain. So I structured my thoughts in a mind map1. Within a couple of minutes2 I came up with this: What is your first reaction? Mine was pretty much surprised: Let me summarize how AWS Security works to make sure you are not surprised one day. This post received over 200 points on Hacker News.
Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud
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AWSで避けるべき5つの間違い | インフラ・ミドルウェア | POSTD
今年からAWS（Amazon Web Services）クラウドコンサルタントとして、中小規模のAWSデプロイの相談を受けています。その多くは典型的なWebアプリケーションです。ここで、ぜひ避けたい5つのよくある間違いを紹介します。 インフラストラクチャを手動で管理する。 Auto Scaling グループを使わない。 CloudWatchのメトリクスを分析しない。 Trusted Advisorを無視する。 仮想マシンを活用しない。 典型的なWebアプリケーションにおける間違いを防ぎたい人は、次に進んでください。 典型的なWebアプリケーション 典型的なWebアプリケーションは最低限次の要素で構成されているものを指します。 ロードバランサ スケーラブルなWebバックエンド データベース そしてこのアプリケーションは、次の図のような仕組みを持っています。 注釈：（左から）DNS、CDN、静的アセット、エラスティックなWebバックエンド、レプリケーション この型は非常に一般的で、これ以外の形式で作るならよほど強力な理由が必要です。 間違い1：インフラストラクチャを手動で管理する...
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