I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on disaster recovery strategies on AWS. The blog post is also available on Medium.
Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS
DevOpsDays Geneva 2022
Today I’m giving a talk on Docs-as-Code at DevOpsDays Geneva, the slides of my presentation are here. It’s a great conference with lots of interesting presentations on DevOps culture and tooling and I’m very glad to be part of it. Kudos to the organizers for the organization and for making it such a friendly event!
Update: the organisers published the videos of the conference on their YouTube channel, you can find my presentation here.
How we passed our AWS certifications and why you should too
My colleague Matt Jackson and I gave a talk on AWS certifications at the AWS UK User Group, an online event streamed live on Twitch. The slides are available here and a recording of the event is available on YouTube. It was a very slick and well organized event (kudos to the organizers!) and our presentation was preceded by an interesting panel discussion on re:Invent 2021 so check out the full stream on YouTube if you missed it.
Assess EKS Security with kube-bench
I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on how to assess EKS security with kube-bench. The blog post is also available on Medium.
Cloud Natives UK Meetup
I recently gave a lightning talk on assessing EKS security with kube-bench at Cloud Native UK, a joint virtual event being put together by the Cloud Native groups in Manchester, Wales, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, representing the cloud native communities from each of the countries in mainland UK. This was a shorter but updated version of the talk I gave at the end of last year at two AWS User Group meetups. The slides are available here and a recording of the event is available on YouTube (my presentation starts at 23:44). It was a very slick and well organized event (kudos to the organizers!) with very interesting presentations so check out the whole even on YouTube if you missed it.
How I passed the AWS Security Specialty Exam
I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on how I passed the AWS Security Specialty exam. The blog post is also available on Medium.
How to set up a Site-to-Site VPN connection
I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on how to set up an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. The blog post is also available on Medium.
AWS User Group Meetups
I recently gave a talk on assessing EKS security with kube-bench at two AWS User Group meetups, namely at AWS User Group Liverpool on 26th October 2020 and at Cambridge AWS User Group on 10th November 2020. These were two online events and the organisers and the audience were very friendly as you would expect from a good meetup! The slides are available here.
Remote Pair Programming
I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog about remote pair programming and looked at tools and techniques like screen sharing, browser-based IDE, VS Code, tmux and tmate. The blog post is also available on Medium.
Update your RDS SSL certificates
I wrote a post on the Medium blog space of my new employer The Scale Factory and described how to update RDS SSL certificates in AWS. The blog post is available on Medium.