System Mapping

Discover, Explore & Communicate the Real Complexity of Your Systems (presentation from LastConf 2018).

Using the new Resource Tagging API in anger

Finding those hard to find AWS resources by tag names

Our team wanted to validate the Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in our environment after a deployment - the problem was they were lost amongst all the other ones in there. They were tagged, but we couldn’t work out how to find them - until we saw the Resource Tagging API.

Mapping system couplings and dependencies for discovery and profit

Crowdsourcing and social engineering combined with open-source tools to map your systems

Have you ever wondered just what would break if that system (you know the one) went down? Do you actually know what systems depend on it? How do the reports get from it to Marketing? In this post, I’ll describe a simple technique I’ve developed to surface and share all this juicy, interesting information.