A couple of weeks ago was a significant milestone in my 14-year IT career: I actually sat a certification exam.…
My favourite talks from YOW! 2017 Melbourne
No food reviews here I'm afraid This year I was incredibly lucky to score a coveted ticket to YOW! in beautiful…
DevOps Talks Conference, 2017
A light dew settles on the leaves of the venerable elm trees which track Melbourne's, St Kilda road. The bulk…
The Emergence of The 3 Towers: DevSecOps
I had the opportunity to attend AWS bootcamp in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. The session I chose to attend was…
Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge
My work commute My commute to and from work on the train is on average 17 minutes. It's the usual uneventful…
re:Invent 2015 Conference report: Welcome to the Starship Enterprise
Last week I attended the fourth re:Invent conference for Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas. During four days I got…
License to Queue
A few months ago I joined an exciting project with fellow Shiner Graham Polley, who you might know from such…
Getting New Relic and RDS to play nice
Anyone who’s ever had to support server infrastructure of any kind knows the value of having a comprehensive, automated monitoring…
