Review: The good, bad and ugly of Amazon Connect
Linux and Mac users love working on Docker, why should Windows get left behind?!
Linux and Mac users love working on Docker, why should Windows get left behind?!
Have you considered opening sourcing any of your work? It might seem daunting, but in reality it’s not all that difficult. Here’s a brief introduction based on my first open source experience.
As more organisations move toward an agile way of working, user stories are increasingly being used as the preferred technique for capturing requirements
A multitudinous method to make a HTTP request meet a matching HTTP response.
A strategy to perform re-producible deployment from any computer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.