Blogs

Protect AWS SDK calls with Bulkheads and Circuit Breakers

If you use one of the AWS SDKs to make queries to the AWS API ...

Protect Amazon Connect from viruses and malware by scanning attachments

Four years ago, we stumbled into Amazon Connect. In essence, Amazon Connect allows your users ...

Programming your CDN: CloudFront and Lambda@Edge

Minimizing the load time of your websites and applications is essential for two reasons. First, ...

Process-as-Code #c9d9

DevOps at scale requires predictability and consistency. Your application code is versioned. Infrastructure-as-code defines your ...

Pro bono: non-profit project wanted

Andreas and I would like to give away one month of our consulting time to ...

Private subnets are broken on AWS

This blog post was written in July 2015 and is partly outdated. Amazon released [VPC ...

Prevent outages with redundant EC2 instances

Unfortunately, EC2 instances aren’t fault-tolerant. Under your virtual server is a host system. These are ...

Show Me Your Architecture Vol. 2: Platform Engineering on AWS

Through the AWS documentation, books like AWS in Action or AWS training, you can gain ...

Pitfall: ACM Certificate with CloudFormation

Good news, CloudFormation added support for AWS Certificate Manager recently. Creating a CloudFront distribution which ...

Passwordless database authentication for AWS Lambda

Does your serverless application need to access an RDS database? Where do you store the ...