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Developing Your Cloud Story (The Overview)
In my last post How to Define Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy?, I wrote about the thought process you need to do when starting to think about your cloud strategy. But, how can you make your cloud strategy document engaging and worth remembering? If you have ever attended a presentation skills training, you have learned that […]
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How to Define Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy?
Recently, I was asked to consult on the creation of a Cloud Strategy document for a client of ours. The effort has been going on for a couple of months already but it seemed that instead getting to convergence, the scope of the document was constantly growing – adding new tools and technologies, creating separate […]
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An example of encryption cipher and how it works
In my last post, I’ve discussed the basics of the secure Web protocol HTTPS (or HTTP-over-SSL), which gives you some idea what HTTPS is and why it is important. In this post, though, I would like to go into details how the SSL (or TLS, I will use the latter in this post so that […]
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What is HTTPS and why you should care?
With all the cybersecurity reports that we hear about lately, increasing our awareness and knowledge of online security raises higher on the task list. Unfortunately, by using crazy acronyms and fancy words cybersecurity experts do not make it easy for normal people to understand online security. Hence, I thought, a series of posts that explain […]
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Troubleshooting Issues with Restarting Pods on Kubernetes
Read moreKubernetes website has quite useful guides for troubleshooting issues with your application, service or cluster but sometimes those may not be very helpful, especially if your containers are constantly failing and restarting. Quite often the problem for that can be a permissions issue. The overall goal is that containers run with least privileges, however, this doesn’t […]
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How To Develop A Better High Availability Strategy?
Read moreAfter yet another cloud outage yesterday (see AWS’s S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn’t get into its own dashboard to warn the world) the world (or at least its North American part) once again went crazy how dangerous the cloud is and how you should go build your own data center because you know […]
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Are Enterprises Building Incomplete CI/CD Pipelines?
Read moreFor a while already we have been working with a large enterprise client, helping them to migrate their on-premise workloads to the cloud. Of course, as added value to the process, they are also migrating their legacy development processes to the modern, better, agile DevOps approach. And of course, they have built a modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery […]
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Architecting Backup Infrastructure for Dynamic Workloads in the Cloud
Read moreRecently I had to design the backup infrastructure for cloud workloads for a client in order to ensure that we comply with the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery standards they have set. However, following traditional IT practices in the cloud quite often poses certain challenges. The scenario that we had to satisfy is best shown in the […]
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Learning the Computer Basics Will Make You a Better Cloud Software Engineer
It is surprising to me that every day I meet developers who do not have a basic understanding of how computers work. Recently I got into an argument of whether this is necessary to become a good cloud software engineer, and the main point of my opponent was that “modern languages and frameworks take care of […]
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How to Implement Social Media Authentication for Your App?
Since the sprawl of mobile apps and web services began, the need to create new usernames and passwords for each app or service started to become annoying and as it proved out decreases the overall security. Hence we decided to bet our authentication on the popular social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, and Google) but wanted […]
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How to Configure Terraform to Work with Azure Resource Manager?
Over the last few days, I was looking for a way to automate our deployment environments on Azure and also investigating automation frameworks for a customer. The debate was between Terraform and Ansible and the following article from Gruntwork did really good work on tilting the weight towards Terraform. We have similar considerations like the guys from […]
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How To Shard Data in Your No-SQL Database?
Sharding the data in your big data storage is often not a trivial problem to solve. Sooner or later you will discover that the sharding schema you used initially may not be the right one long term. Fortunately, we stumbled upon this quite early in our development and decided to redesign our data storage tier before […]