A Lead… Or a Leader?

Grace Chilakamarri shares her thoughts on why not all team Leads are automatically Leaders
Another Warrior in Our Midst

Trent Hornibrook becomes Cevo’s next AWS Cloud Warrior
Is There Such a Thing as too Much Automation

Automation is fantastic for many reasons – it saves time, reduces errors, and enables people to perform extremely complex tasks with little to no understanding of what is being done directly. But by automating everything are we setting ourselves up for disaster? What happens when something goes wrong and the people who built the automation have all left?
Introduction to R
Sometimes using Excel to look at data works really well. Other times, such as when you are trying to make sense of a 170MB file of AWS EC2 pricing data it just sucks. Luckily R exists and can do the job really well! In this post I’ll run through some of the features of R and produce a nicely formatted CSV of on-demand EC2 pricing data.
Sending Watchmen into the Open

It would seem counterintuitive for an organisation to release their code for all to see. However, with the exception of those who sell software as a business, more and more are seeing the benefits of doing so.
Replacing Packer With Kitchenci and a Rakefile
An introduction to creating validated AMIs without using Packer.
Meltdown, Spectre and Linux on AWS: Security vs Performance?

AWS’ Shared Responsibility Model means that you are responsible for patching the operating system running on your EC2 instances, and this is where things get … complicated.
Cevo – So Fast We’re Seeing Double!

Cevo are delighted to have been awarded second place in the CRN Fast 50 and 40th in the Financial Review Fast Starters for 2017.
Recognising the Fallacy of A Single Root Cause

Think back to a successful deployment or a project and try and attribute the success to a single thing. It seems ridiculous, and that’s because it is. It’s easy to see that many things that had to go right for success.
An Introduction to Web Performance Optimisation
Practical steps for reducing costs and improving the user experience.
This is an excerpt from a talk I gave at LASTConf Melbourne 2017 on Web Performance Optimisation.