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.
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.