Two years ago, an 8th Light client formed a "platform team" with the goal of creating a secure, consistent, and extensible cloud infrastructure environment for...more.
By default, every newly created AWS resource lacks permission to perform any actions. AWS strongly recommends following the security practice of granting least privilege, i.e....more.
Serverless is a borderline buzzword nowadays. Serverless websites! Serverless APIs! Serverless...everything! And now serverless databases. Amazon Web Services has their own serverless database offering, which...more.
My first experience with SQL performance tuning came before I decided to pursue programming as a career. As a Business Intelligence Manager, I was tasked...more.
So. You’re migrating to the cloud. Simple, right? Everything is basically the same. You've got a server with an operating system of your choice. Nothing’s...more.
The Problem Working in many different languages across multiple projects means it's often a pain to remember how to build all the different components. How...more.
In my last post I talked about how to manage cloud resources with traditional configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack. Today we're...more.
Imagine this: You're moving an application from a shared server to a cloud system. This application has a massive folder of files saved onto the...more.
Ansible is a fantastic way to orchestrate deployments that aren't exactly trivial. In a complex deployment, there are dozens of players and they all need...more.
It’s 2017, which means there's a good chance that a non-trivial portion of your business depends upon the cloud. Adopting a cloud strategy for infrastructure...more.
Putting your infrastructure in the cloud has a lot of benefits. Some highlights include: Fine-grained cost control based on a pay-as-you-go model. If you think...more.