Tag: DevOps

Exploring a killer, yet unrealised, use case for mTLS in content delivery networks.

Some interesting use cases for Cloudfront's origin group failover feature.

Whether Redis or Memcached, AWS Elasticache is an essential component in a scalable architecture.

A close call with a subdomain takeover highlights the importance of DNS hygiene

Why you should still be using www. in your web address.

A few simple steps to take, if you're having unexpected issues with your DNS changes.

Exploring JWTs. What they are, where they're used, and what needs to be considered in their implementation.

How, why and whether to obfuscate your frontend code

Penetration test reports often highlight insecure responses. Let's have a look at how we can secure their responses, with HTTP Headers and more.

Manage your S3 data transfers efficiently; ways to copy and sync from various sources, using the AWS CLI and DataSync.

Getting visitors to the right content and products for their needs is a key concern for any platform and search plays a crucial, but complicated role.

Access the command line of ECS containers hosted on EC2 or Fargate using Session Manager.

Enable secure and scalable communication between containers in ECS using Service Discovery.

Get a notification in your Slack channel whenever something occurs in AWS.

Setting up an Identity Provider for AWS IAM to ensure secure authentication using GitLab as an example.

Excuting a job with multiple configurations in parallel using Gitlab.

Automatically trigger a GitLab pipeline when content changes in an S3 bucket

Automatically trigger downstream pipelines on interdependent projects.

Configuring NGINX to protect a login endpoint with rate limiting to mitigate brute-force attacks.

How we used NGINX's reverse proxy features to entirely mitigate errors caused by downtime of our headless CMS effectively, whilst always serving the most recent content.