3 Months Into an All-In AWS Migration: A Sailboat Retro
Using the Sailboat Retrospective to look back – and forward – at one of our current projects
Story Time
As more organisations move toward an agile way of working, user stories are increasingly being used as the preferred technique for capturing requirements
How to Debug AWS Application Load Balancers With Minimal Colourful Vituperations
A multitudinous method to make a HTTP request meet a matching HTTP response.
When ‘Docker’ Meets ‘Make’
A strategy to perform re-producible deployment from any computer.
Jenkins as a Service [Video]
An introduction to deploying an autoscaled Jenkins cluster on AWS ECS using code all the way down.
Watchmen on the Radar
#TWTechRadar: Watchmen project gets the nod in the 2018 ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.
Using the New Resource Tagging API in Anger
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.
Get Baking
As the number of AWS accounts a team uses increases, so does the headache of access and credential management. Identity accounts can help. We called ours Bakery.
Automatically Compliant
Compliance is a thing. A big thing in most big organisations. Meeting compliance obligations, whether they are based on regulation, code of conduct or risk, can be arduous. Fortunately, automation can help!
It’s Showtime!
Showcases are part of the regular Agile development cadence. However I’ve worked at organisations that are ‘Agile’ yet don’t do them. Despite its name, showcases can have greater benefits than simply showing work.