Architecture Serverless Strategies: Multi-Account Orchestration Unique challenges arise when an application needs to orchestrate activity across multiple public cloud provider accounts. I explore solution options for account locality, account identification, permissions and region locality.
AWS AWS Session Manager: A better way to SSH SSH can ride on top of AWS' Session Manager, allowing you to improve your network posture, use multi-factor authentication, use fine-grained authorization, and centralize identity, access management and audit.
Use Elastic scaling to achieve blazingly fast smoke tests Check out this blog article I wrote on elastic scaling: https://www.webomates.com/blog/smoke-test/
This isn't your father's Microsoft I have a consulting engagement at a big Windows Enterprise shop. I had to re-familiarize myself with the current Microsoft compute/cloud stack. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The offerings are compelling.
Proxies 4 Ways to Reverse Proxy with Nginx Design options to route requests from an nginx proxy web server to an origin web server.
Cloud Autonomy in the Cloud How do we take advantage of cloud benefits, like cost, agility and resilience, but avoid the primary tradeoff — vendor lock-in? I present a framework to select self- versus cloud-managed services.
AWS AWS Multi-Account Strategy: Part 2 In Part 2, I dive into WebomateS cloud's networking, looking at the details of the cross-account VPC peering, subnetting design and network segmentation.
AWS AWS Multi-Account Strategy: Part 1 I recently led the WebomateS team through a massive refactoring, blowing up one AWS account and a flat network, and starting over with three accounts, segmented networks and centralized sharing of IAM users, AMIs and ECR repos
Agility Feature Toggles Feature toggles are real assets to your software practice, right? Absolutely, but without discipline, the aggregate complexity undermines system reliability.