https://element7.io/Recent content on Element7Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbhttps://element7.io/2024/10/please-aws-allow-me-to-enforce-the-decommission-of-deprecated-lambda-runtimes/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:15:00 +0200https://element7.io/2024/10/please-aws-allow-me-to-enforce-the-decommission-of-deprecated-lambda-runtimes/Deprecated Lambda runtimes present significant security risks, and managing them manually is cumbersome. AWS should provide tools to enforce a grace period for deprecated runtimes, after which they are either automatically updated or disabled. This approach would benefit both customers and AWS, improving security and efficiency.https://element7.io/2024/05/the-relativity-of-genai-productivity-gains-and-the-jevons-paradox/Mon, 20 May 2024 20:15:00 +0200https://element7.io/2024/05/the-relativity-of-genai-productivity-gains-and-the-jevons-paradox/The article examines the concept of GenAI productivity gains in relation to the Jevons Paradox, arguing that while GenAI can significantly enhance productivity, these gains may be offset by increased expectations and demands, leading to a need for a nuanced understanding of its true impact.https://element7.io/2023/10/the-double-edged-sword-of-aws-backup-vault-lock-guarding-against-ransom-attacks-but-at-what-cost/Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:15:00 +0200https://element7.io/2023/10/the-double-edged-sword-of-aws-backup-vault-lock-guarding-against-ransom-attacks-but-at-what-cost/The AWS Backup Vault Lock provides robust protection against ransom attacks, but without setting a proper retention time, businesses risk escalating storage costs or complex, costly account migrations.https://element7.io/2023/10/empowering-cloud-security-and-resiliency-a-guide-to-read-only-console-access/Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2023/10/empowering-cloud-security-and-resiliency-a-guide-to-read-only-console-access/Enforcing read-only access to the cloud console can help mitigate configuration drift, improve resilience, and protect against an account takeover. Learn why and how.https://element7.io/2023/07/shift-left-security-the-git-backdoor-in-deployment-pipelines/Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2023/07/shift-left-security-the-git-backdoor-in-deployment-pipelines/A pipeline triggered by Git responsible for deploying your infrastructure can do quite some harm. In this post we examine this problem and the necessary security measurements.https://element7.io/2023/01/shift-left-security-why-you-should-use-aws-imdsv2-explained-in-detail/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2023/01/shift-left-security-why-you-should-use-aws-imdsv2-explained-in-detail/This article explains the security enhancements IMDSv2 bring and how this is technically achieved.https://element7.io/2022/12/boost-performance-and-reduce-costs-using-lambda-extensions/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/12/boost-performance-and-reduce-costs-using-lambda-extensions/Learn how to utilize Lambda Extensions to cache your secrets and parameters for better perfomance and reduced costs.https://element7.io/2022/12/aws-ssm-session-manager-port-forwarding-to-rds-without-ssh/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/12/aws-ssm-session-manager-port-forwarding-to-rds-without-ssh/How to use Session Manager to establish a secure connection to an RDS running in a private subnethttps://element7.io/2022/11/the-hidden-cloudwatch-metric-filter-debugger/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/11/the-hidden-cloudwatch-metric-filter-debugger/A CloudWatch Metric Filter Debugger exists in the AWS Web Console. It’s a very handy tool, you just need to find it.https://element7.io/2022/11/how-to-debug-and-trace-problems-in-aws-codebuild/Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/11/how-to-debug-and-trace-problems-in-aws-codebuild/Capabilities to debug and test AWS CodeBuild exist but seem unknown to most people, let’s change that!https://element7.io/2022/10/a-hidden-gem-two-ways-to-improve-aws-fargate-container-launch-times/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/10/a-hidden-gem-two-ways-to-improve-aws-fargate-container-launch-times/Because image caching is not easy to fix on AWS Fargate, AWS is working on two alternative approaches to reduce container launch timeshttps://element7.io/2022/10/sustainability-and-software-development-properly-prioritise-your-actions/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/10/sustainability-and-software-development-properly-prioritise-your-actions/When thinking about sustainability, properly prioritize your efforts toward limiting your carbon footprint.https://element7.io/2022/09/resilient-and-cost-optimized-artifactory-hosting-on-aws/Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/09/resilient-and-cost-optimized-artifactory-hosting-on-aws/Set up Artifcatory on AWS with cost-efficiency and resiliency in mindhttps://element7.io/2022/08/the-importance-of-securing-serverless-infrastructure/Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/08/the-importance-of-securing-serverless-infrastructure/Understand why you should and why it is important to secure serverless infrastructure.https://element7.io/2022/07/how-to-prepare-for-the-aws-solution-architect-professional-certification-sap-c01/Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/07/how-to-prepare-for-the-aws-solution-architect-professional-certification-sap-c01/Get an insight on how to prepare for AWS Solution Architect Professional certificationhttps://element7.io/2022/07/aws-rds-upgrade-how-to-solve-the-oracle-rds-ora-28040-no-matching-authentication-protocol-issue/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/07/aws-rds-upgrade-how-to-solve-the-oracle-rds-ora-28040-no-matching-authentication-protocol-issue/Learn to use RDS parameter groups to define authentication protocols and solve connection issueshttps://element7.io/2022/06/understand-visualize-and-lower-cloudwatch-costs/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/06/understand-visualize-and-lower-cloudwatch-costs/Become aware of CloudWatch costs and learn how to bring them downhttps://element7.io/2022/05/aws-sqs-inside-out-encryption-at-rest-resource-policies/Mon, 23 May 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/05/aws-sqs-inside-out-encryption-at-rest-resource-policies/Learn how to enable encryption at rest and how to use resource policies on AWS SQShttps://element7.io/2022/02/it-professionalism-have-you-ever-wondered-why-we-ship-shit/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/02/it-professionalism-have-you-ever-wondered-why-we-ship-shit/Bad design and incompetence are two main reasons for delivering low-quality software.https://element7.io/2022/01/improving-resiliency-using-immutable-infrastructure/Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/01/improving-resiliency-using-immutable-infrastructure/Scale faster and avoid unpredictable in your systems using Immutable Infrastructurehttps://element7.io/2022/01/one-click-set-up-querying-aws-alb-and-vpc-flow-logs-made-easy/Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2022/01/one-click-set-up-querying-aws-alb-and-vpc-flow-logs-made-easy/An easy way to set up an Athena integration to query AWS ALB and VPC Flow logshttps://element7.io/2021/12/how-to-use-static-stability-to-design-a-resilient-architecture/Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/12/how-to-use-static-stability-to-design-a-resilient-architecture/A deep dive into static stability and how to apply it to a system designhttps://element7.io/2021/12/aws-rds-backup-dilemma-why-it-is-hard-to-do-good-on-rto-and-rpo-simultaneously/Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/12/aws-rds-backup-dilemma-why-it-is-hard-to-do-good-on-rto-and-rpo-simultaneously/Recovery Point in time offers the best RPO but it comes with a price.https://element7.io/2021/12/aws-reinvent-2021-recap-by-a-devtools-hero/Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/12/aws-reinvent-2021-recap-by-a-devtools-hero/My personal list of the most exciting announcements at re:Invent 2021https://element7.io/2021/11/ransomware-mitigation-the-new-vault-lock-for-aws-backup/Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/11/ransomware-mitigation-the-new-vault-lock-for-aws-backup/How to protect your backups using AWS Backup against post-encryption or deletion.https://element7.io/2021/06/aws-api-gateway-best-practices-in-depth/Mon, 14 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/06/aws-api-gateway-best-practices-in-depth/AWS API Gateway Best Practices about throttling and security in generalhttps://element7.io/2021/06/the-quirks-of-software-effort-estimation/Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/06/the-quirks-of-software-effort-estimation/Some interesting concepts and laws regarding software effort estimation.https://element7.io/2021/04/aws-ec2-resilience-engineering-the-easy-way/Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/04/aws-ec2-resilience-engineering-the-easy-way/Use Maximum Instance Lifetime property to ensure that instances are recycled before reaching the specified lifetime.https://element7.io/2021/04/be-aware-aws-lambda-deployments-fail-on-isolation/Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/04/be-aware-aws-lambda-deployments-fail-on-isolation/While deploying Lambdas a time window exists where different Lambda versions can run side by side (both old and new). If you’re unaware of this, a deployment could end up pretty messy.https://element7.io/2021/04/keep-up-with-the-times-use-aws-privatelink/Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/04/keep-up-with-the-times-use-aws-privatelink/The benefits of using AWS PrivateLink and a how-to guide.https://element7.io/2021/03/aws-chatbot-to-the-rescue-never-miss-an-aws-security-alert/Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/03/aws-chatbot-to-the-rescue-never-miss-an-aws-security-alert/Use AWS Chatbot to forward all you security alerts to your chat client.https://element7.io/2021/02/from-now-on-you-can-pay-your-fines-online-for-the-city-of-ghent/Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:32:45 +0200https://element7.io/2021/02/from-now-on-you-can-pay-your-fines-online-for-the-city-of-ghent/Technical writeup on how we have launched invoice.genthttps://element7.io/2021/01/how-to-avoid-cloud-vendor-lock-in/Sun, 31 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/01/how-to-avoid-cloud-vendor-lock-in/How-to use a multi-account setup and loose coupling to avoid vendor lock-inhttps://element7.io/2021/01/a-lifesaver-prevent-aws-sns-subscriptions-to-become-floating/Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/01/a-lifesaver-prevent-aws-sns-subscriptions-to-become-floating/A solution to monitor and prevent SNS topics to become floatinghttps://element7.io/2021/01/keep-up-with-the-times-forget-ssh-welcome-aws-session-manager/Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/01/keep-up-with-the-times-forget-ssh-welcome-aws-session-manager/Installation, usage and advantages of AWS SSM Session Managerhttps://element7.io/2021/01/the-curious-case-of-autoscaling/Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:51:00 +0200https://element7.io/2021/01/the-curious-case-of-autoscaling/Why you should implement a Fail Fast mechanism in your backendhttps://element7.io/2020/12/creating-an-aws-fargate-service-with-a-custom-task-definition-using-the-aws-python-cdk/Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:43:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/12/creating-an-aws-fargate-service-with-a-custom-task-definition-using-the-aws-python-cdk/A Python CDK code example for creating an ECS Fargate servicehttps://element7.io/2020/12/the-polyglot-developer/Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/12/the-polyglot-developer/The advantages of knowing multiple programming languageshttps://element7.io/2020/07/lambda-cold-starts-why-i-dont-see-the-problem/Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/07/lambda-cold-starts-why-i-dont-see-the-problem/Cold starts are just part of Lambdahttps://element7.io/2020/07/you-build-it-you-run-it-at-least-theres-one-caveat/Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/07/you-build-it-you-run-it-at-least-theres-one-caveat/TLDR; It boils down to authorityhttps://element7.io/2020/06/sprint-planning-how-to-use-rto-rpo-to-prevent-feature-stuffing/Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/06/sprint-planning-how-to-use-rto-rpo-to-prevent-feature-stuffing/A best practice against feature stuffinghttps://element7.io/2020/06/how-to-organize-cloudformation-stacks-to-minimize-blast-radius/Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:25:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/06/how-to-organize-cloudformation-stacks-to-minimize-blast-radius/A strategy to organize your CloudFormation stacks based on stack velocityhttps://element7.io/2020/05/managing-multiple-aws-accounts-using-the-cli/Sat, 09 May 2020 12:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/05/managing-multiple-aws-accounts-using-the-cli/Managing Multiple AWS Accounts using the CLI.https://element7.io/2020/03/publishing-a-go-module-getting-up-and-running/Sun, 15 Mar 2020 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/03/publishing-a-go-module-getting-up-and-running/Tips & tricks on how to publish a Go module.https://element7.io/2020/01/react-white-box-vs-black-box-testing/Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2020/01/react-white-box-vs-black-box-testing/A comparison of white-box and black-box testing when testing React components.https://element7.io/2019/10/tdd-with-petri-nets/Fri, 11 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/tdd-with-petri-nets/Write-up of the talk by Gojko Adzic at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/feedback-loops-for-software-delivery/Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/feedback-loops-for-software-delivery/Write-up of the talk by Gojko Adzic at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/sc-london-2019-discussion-panel/Wed, 09 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/sc-london-2019-discussion-panel/Write-up of the discussion panel at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/the-gordian-knot/Tue, 08 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/the-gordian-knot/Write-up of the talk by Alberto Brandolini at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/what-does-great-architecture-look-like/Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:00:00 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/what-does-great-architecture-look-like/Write-up of the talk by James Birnie at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/the-lost-art-of-software-design/Sun, 06 Oct 2019 21:55:31 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/the-lost-art-of-software-design/Write-up of the talk by Simon Brown at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/bdd-in-action-testing-modern-web-applications-at-scale/Sat, 05 Oct 2019 21:55:31 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/bdd-in-action-testing-modern-web-applications-at-scale/Write-up of the talk by John Smart at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/aligning-product-and-software-design/Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:55:31 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/aligning-product-and-software-design/Write-up of the talk by Sandro Manusco at SC London 2019.https://element7.io/2019/10/software-craftsmanship-conference-2019/Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:55:31 +0200https://element7.io/2019/10/software-craftsmanship-conference-2019/A conference is the go-to place to motivate yourself. Write-up of our trip to London.