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Joel Garcia

Joel Garcia has been building AllCode since 2015. He’s an innovative, hands-on executive with a proven record of designing, developing, and operating Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), mobile, and desktop solutions. Joel has expertise in HealthTech, VoIP, and cloud-based solutions. Joel has experience scaling multiple start-ups for successful exits to IMS Health and Golden Gate Capital, as well as working at mature, industry-leading software companies. He’s held executive engineering positions in San Francisco at TidalWave, LittleCast, Self Health Network, LiveVox acquired by Golden Gate Capital, and Med-Vantage acquired by IMS Health.
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Posts and articles by Joel Garcia

Selling

In doing startups, either you quickly get over the fear of writing emails or calling complete strangers and asking them to purchase your goods or you perish. Even when you make a connection with a prospective buyer , many of these people will invariably say, “Yes, I’d...

AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk

AWS SSL Certificates for Elastic Beanstalk are a pain to configure so I put together the following. SSL certificates for your vanity domain will work correctly as long as users access your Elastic Beanstalk environment through your vanity domain name.Certs are not...

What do you do when your SSL Certificate expired?

I ran into this problem the other day. My SSL Certificate expired for my dev domain. I went to Network Solutions, snagged a new Certificate using my old Certificate Signing Request (CSR), and tried to import it into my keystore. In the past, I’ve always generated my...

Minify Sencha ExtJs in Production

The main issue that I’ve encountered using SenchaExtJs in Production is the compressed JavaScript after using JSBuilder is still large. JSBuilder does a nice job of compressing and obfuscating, but the generated app-all.js is still too big, which means that the...

How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS

How to migrate your EC2 MySQL Instance to RDS

The other day I had to migrate a couple of databases from an EC2 MySQL instance to RDS. I couldn’t find a decent example of how to do this so I wrote this up.

Some of you might ask why do you want to do this? You get more control with EC2 than RDS. The reality is the EC2 instance ran out of RAM, and I didn’t want to build out a new box.

Best Practices for AWS Cost Optimization

Sharon Wagner did a nice little presentation at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group today.Sharon Wagner did a nice little presentation at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group today. It looks like we should be leveraging Glacier storage more as it’s...