AWS re:Invent 2019 is over. It was huge but simple math tells me there’s at least a 95% chance* you…
OWASP AppSec Day 2019
This was to be my first OWASP AppSec day so I was unsure of what to expect. I'm pleased to report that it turned out to be one of the best security-related conferences I've attended.
GraphQL: Thinking Beyond the Technology
In this post I'm going to explain why I think frontend developers need to start building their own servers, and why GraphQL is a great way to do it. In doing so, you'll see that this is about more than just technology. It's about culture as well.
Black Holes and Revelations
This is the story of an investigation that I was recently involved in at a client. It took over a week to resolve, involved networking acronyms that seemed to increase in length each day (MTU...ICMP...PMTUD?!), and wound up with us learning all about a rather scary-sounding concept: black-hole connections.
Canary deployments with Spinnaker and Kubernetes – Part 2
In part 1 of this tutorial, we briefly looked at the concept of canary deployments, and installed Jenkins and Prometheus on an EKS-based Kubernetes cluster. In this part, we will setup Spinnaker using AWS S3 as its backend. After enabling canary deployment functionality we'll set up a canary pipeline to test our basic service.
Canary deployments with Spinnaker and Kubernetes – Part 1
In this two-part post, I'm going to explore the setup of Spinnaker on AWS EKS to do canary deployments. Our end goal will be to deploy an extremely simple golang web service that will test for increased latency post-deployment, and rollback the deployment if we exceed a certain threshold.
ComponentsConf 2019
A couple of weeks ago I attended ComponentsConf 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. This conference focuses on JavaScript frameworks, and I was pretty excited to attend it. This is because over the last year I have been working on a component library to be shared across a number of projects. It needs to work in everything from Drupal to Angular, and we're still trying to find the best foundation to build it on. A conference that is framework-agnostic seemed like a good place to learn more about the options that are available.
Burn Baby Burn!
Trivia behind Shine's BigQuery Challenge theme "Burn Baby Burn" at GCP Sydney Summit 2019
Tackling the Snake in the Corner: Google’s Deployment Manager
Learn how to take the next steps into Infrastructure as Code, using python and Google's Cloud Deployment Manager.
Java: Past, Present, Distant Past and Future
The year was 1997. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were musing on love and the motions of amusement park rides,…
