Creating MEAN stack application using Bitnami launchpad in AWS

My earlier Harvard course on Bigdata Analytics had given me enough exposure on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and professional and personal curiosity on emerging technologies taught me enough about MEAN stack.  MEAN stack is a full stack development tool kit that includes javascript based techologies MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js and Node.js.

I wanted to take this learning to next level by hosting a MEAN stack application on AWS instance. While self exploring some intricate details of configuring and using AWS, much of the documentation was scattered to address individual needs and I had to connect the dots to meet my needs. Some of the documentation was old and some of the screenshots were obsolete. I decided to make a video along the way so that people who look for such information also get to learn. So here is the video of Creating MEAN stack application using Bitnami launchpad in AWS

I intend to do further videos explaining about other parts such as how to connect to the newly created VM, using Rockmongo, etc

Feel free to ask any related questions by leaving comments below this post or comments in youtube video page.

Big Data Analytics at Harvard Extension School

Quest for upgrades in technologies and skills are indispensable traits in software field. Although it was my impulsive decision to join this course, fortunately everything worked out very well to start the studies at Harvard extension school in Boston, Massachusetts. Big data analytics subject that a friend had enrolled intrigued me as I have been thinking of learning about this subject for a long time. Big data also aligns very well with my existing knowledge of over 15 years of Business Intelligence, ETL and databases related experience.

I have been working on Healthcase analytics for over 3 years and it seemed like a best fit course coupled with the thirst to learn were all solved by this course.
Here is my project that i presented at the end of the course. It was one of the very few projects selected to be presented at Harvard to all our class.

This course instantly prepared me for the next logical shift in my career and as a result of all the curiosity, I ended up creating a BigData Technologies Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT3bqK2QL93j-IFYFYbvjWQ  to share my technical explorations.