Large language models (LLMs) can be used to help engineers analyze design documents and verify compliance with standards such as the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM). In practice when attempting to add these documents to an LLM's context, three issues often appear:Token limits: ISM...
Only 5% of Generative AI tools reach production, and there is a good reason for it.The new world of AI tools is set to storm the market. In only the first half of 2025, more than $44 Billion has already poured into GenAI investment and...
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...
I think Generative AI can transform the traditional testing landscape. In this post, I'm going to explain why, and present an example of it in action....
In a recent project, the team wanted to improve the deployment and management of Route53 Resolver DNS Firewalls across the AWS Organisation. We ultimately utilised AWS Firewall Manager and gathered lots of useful operational insights. This blog post shares those insights to assist others planning...
In my previous post, I wrote about how I used AWS DMS to create an Oracle database replica in Aurora PostgreSQL. I touched on how my tests uncovered slow query performance and how using the query plan management extension helped me to achieve comparable execution...
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.
