Cloud

While we would all like to think everything we do is perfect, mistakes happen from time to time. People can select the wrong versions for deployment by mistake, bugs in the infrastructure we build can result in incorrect artefacts being deployed, or even breakdowns in...

Recently, I got involved in an cloud application uplift project. As part of the project we wanted to use an Aurora PostgreSQL database to offload all read activities from a RDS Oracle Database Standard Edition.Since this was such an exciting and educational experience, I wanted...

In this post I'm going to talk about some of the things I’ve learnt working on many different projects where AWS CloudFormation was used to manage infrastructure and applications. This will include recommendations for best practices, and CloudFormation features I’ve found to be particularly...

On a recent project we were asked by a client if it would be possible to host a React app using serverless technologies, but also ensure that traffic never left their VPC and corporate network.

In this post I'm going to talk about how we achieved this outcome, and how it proved to be more of a challenge than we first thought it would be.