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Why Migrate from GCP to AWS?

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on why migrate from GCP to AWS. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Why AWS Migration and Modernisation Matter Now

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on why AWS migration and modernisation matter now. The blog post is also available on Medium.

5 Signs You Should Modernise Your Application on AWS

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on 5 signs telling you should modernise your application on AWS. The blog post is also available on Medium.

The Importance of Continuous Learning in the AWS Ecosystem

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on the importance of continuous learning in the AWS ecosystem. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Why You Should Migrate from VMWare to AWS

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on migrating from VMWare to AWS. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Why Migrate from Azure to AWS?

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on migrating from Azure to AWS. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Why List Your SaaS Product On AWS MarketPlace?

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on listing a SaaS product on AWS Marketplace. The blog post is also available on Medium.

The Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on the benefits of migrating to the cloud. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Scaling Silo-Isolated Tenants

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on scaling silo-isolated tenants. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Seven Strategies for Migration to AWS

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on seven strategies for migration to AWS. The blog post is also available on Medium.

How I Passed the AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on how I passed the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS

Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on AWS disaster recovery strategies. The blog post is also available on Medium.

Assess EKS Security with kube-bench

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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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.

How I Passed the AWS Security Specialty Exam

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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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

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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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.

Remote Pair Programming

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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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

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote a post on The Scale Factory blog on how to update RDS SSL certificates in AWS. The blog post is available on Medium.

How to Download an Entire S3 Bucket Recursively

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes I have the need to keep a local copy of an S3 bucket. Using the AWS console is ok if you just have few objects in the S3 bucket. But what do you do if you have hundreds of objects in your S3 bucket? The aws cli comes to rescue with this simple command:

aws s3 cp --recursive s3://my_s3_bucket .

The recursive flag downloads the entire S3 bucket recursively into the local directory (that’s what the dot at the end is for). The operation may take some time depending on the number of objects stored in the S3 bucket so be patient!

AWS Blog Post

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I recently wrote a blog post for the AWS blog. The blog post is available on the AWS Public Sector blog and describes how we are using AWS in the Dictionaries department of Oxford University Press to make high-quality language data available to licensees, software developers, and the wider public.

CD Summit and Jenkins Days 2016

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This week I’m giving a talk about Continuous Security with Jenkins, Docker Bench, and Amazon Inspector at CD Summit & Jenkins Days in Amsterdam and in Berlin. CD Summit & Jenkins Days are a series of conferences in the US and in Europe focusing on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

This is the abstract of my talk:

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Amazon Inspector

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows to identify security vulnerabilities at operating system and network levels by scanning the host against a knowledge base of security best practices and rules.

I recently integrated Amazon Inspector to run in a Jenkins job so that security testing can be automated and performed prior to deployment to production.

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Docker Bench

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Docker Bench is an open source tool for automatically validating the configuration of a host running Docker containers. The tool has been written among others by Diogo Mónica, security lead at Docker, and performs security checks at the container level following Docker’s CIS Benchmark recommendations.

As you would expect, the easiest way to run Docker Bench is via a Docker container. Just make sure you have Docker 1.10 or better, download the Docker image: