Amazon introduced native blue-green deployment support in ECS, allowing simultaneous operation of old and new application versions. This strategy minimizes downtime and simplifies rollbacks. The article details how to modify an existing ECS service for blue-green deployments using CloudFormation, enabling more sophisticated and efficient application...
Improving the quality of software doesn’t have to come at the expense of delivery velocity. An old adage applies - work smarter, not harder. It’s not about applying more testing. It’s about adopting a risk-based QE approach to optimise testing strategies and effort....
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.
In this post I will show how you can use tfsec to run security checks against your Terraform code, and address any issues that it finds. Furthermore, we'll use the Terratest Go library to make sure we don't accidentally cause any functional regressions along the...
NewRelic is a powerful platform that helps users monitor the performance of their services. I'll show you how to use Terraform to create a NewRelic dashboard and set up an email alert when certain conditions are met....
AEM OpenCloud is an open-source platform for hosting Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) on the AWS Cloud. It is highly configurable, but this configurability means that there are a lot of parameters to get right, and many opportunities for typos and the use of unsupported values....
Recently I worked on a personal project to help support the Linux distro I use as a daily driver, Manjaro. I set up a package mirror to allow users from the community to connect to my server and pull updates or new packages for install....
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
