AWS EC2 Resilience Engineering the easy way
14 April 2021
Use Maximum Instance Lifetime property to ensure that instances are recycled before reaching the specified lifetime.
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Be aware: AWS Lambda Deployments Fail on Isolation
8 April 2021
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.
Keep up with the times: use AWS PrivateLink
7 April 2021
The benefits of using AWS PrivateLink and a how-to guide.
AWS Chatbot to the rescue: never miss an AWS Security alert
17 March 2021
Use AWS Chatbot to forward all you security alerts to your chat client.
Paying outstanding fines online for the city of Ghent
1 February 2021
Technical writeup on how we have launched invoice.gent
How-to avoid cloud vendor lock-in
31 January 2021
How-to use a multi-account setup and loose coupling to avoid vendor lock-in
A lifesaver: Prevent AWS SNS subscriptions to become 'floating'
27 January 2021
A solution to monitor and prevent SNS topics to become floating
AWS SSM Session Manager Port Forwarding to RDS without SSH
21 January 2021
How-to use Session Manager to establish a secure connection to an RDS running in a private subnet
Keep up with the times: forget SSH, welcome AWS Session Manager
20 January 2021
Installation, usage and advantages of AWS SSM Session Manager
The Curious Case of Autoscaling
9 January 2021
Why you should implement a Fail Fast mechanism in your backend
Creating an AWS Fargate service with a custom Task Definition using the AWS Python CDK
30 December 2020
A Python CDK code example for creating an ECS Fargate service
The Polyglot Developer
24 December 2020
The advantages of knowing multiple programming languages
Lambda Cold Starts, why I don’t see the problem
28 July 2020
Cold starts are just part of Lambda
You Build It, You Run It: at least there's one caveat
2 July 2020
TLDR; It boils down to authority
Sprint planning: how-to use RTO & RPO to prevent feature stuffing
24 June 2020
A best practice against feature stuffing
How-to organize CloudFormation stacks to minimize blast radius
21 June 2020
A strategy to organize your CloudFormation stacks based on stack velocity
Managing Multiple AWS Accounts using the CLI
9 May 2020
Managing Multiple AWS Accounts using the CLI.
Publishing a Go module
15 March 2020
Tips & tricks on how to publish a Go module.
React: white-box vs black-box testing
28 January 2020
A comparison of white-box and black-box testing when testing React components.
TDD with Petri Nets
11 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by Gojko Adzic at SC London 2019.
Feedback Loops for Software Delivery
10 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by Gojko Adzic at SC London 2019.
SC London 2019 — Discussion Panel
9 October 2019
Write-up of the discussion panel at SC London 2019.
The Gordian Knot
8 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by Alberto Brandolini at SC London 2019.
What does GREAT Architecture Look like?
7 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by James Birnie at SC London 2019.
The Lost Art of Software Design
6 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by Simon Brown at SC London 2019.
Testing Modern Web Applications at Scale
5 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by John Smart at SC London 2019.
Aligning Product and Software Design
4 October 2019
Write-up of the talk by Sandro Manusco at SC London 2019.
Software Craftsmanship London
3 October 2019
A conference is the go-to place to motivate yourself. Write-up of our trip to London.