Crossing the chasm between the old world – virtual machines isolated within a private network – and the new world – Serverless making use of publicly accessible APIs only – can be tricky. On the one hand, it is possible to configure VPC access for AWS Lambda. On the other hand, doing so comes with […]
Archives for March 2018
Configure your CloudFormation managed infrastructure with Parameter Store and CodePipeline
Getting started with CI/CD to manage your AWS infrastructure is hard: You have to familiarize yourself with the available technologies. You have to create a Proof of Concept to show your team how it works. You have to convince your team to stop using the graphical Management Console. The last part is usually the hardest. […]
ZhongAn Technology Makes Efforts To Protect Media Companies using Blockchain
A subsidiary of the Chinese online insurer, ZhongAn, ZhongAn Technology, files a patent for protecting media companies with blockchain technology. ZhongAn Technology, in a bid to protect the intellectual property rights of media companies, has filed a patent for using blockchain solutions to this end. This is no surprise considering the ever increasing rate of […]
Burst credits of t2 EC2 instances need monitoring
EC2 is one of the fundamental services on AWS. If you are not 100% Serverless, your application health depends on the health of your EC2 instances. When I do AWS architecture reviews for our clients, I check that CPU burst capacity is monitored for EC2 instances of type t2. A widespread mistake is that credits […]
New CloudFormation Templates – Store your state
We help numerous clients to automate AWS with the help of CloudFormation. As you can imagine, we can reuse CloudFormation templates across clients. The template library comes with several advantages: Higher quality: we continuously improve the templates while they are used in production Increased speed: we can set up complex AWS infrastructures within hours Lower […]
Tweaking RDS database performance and ElastiCache
Tweaking database performance An RDS database, or a SQL database in general, can only be scaled vertically. To scale a database vertically means to increase the resources of your database but you still have a single database. If the performance of your database becomes insufficient, you must increase the performance of the underlying hardware: Faster […]