Topic: 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

A critical look at Tailwind, the pros, cons and alternatives.

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.

Trying to use AWS Cloudwatch to implement a "kill switch" that automatically disables CloudFront distribution if the bandwidth cost exceeds a specified threshold.

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.

Send transactional mail securely and at scale, directly from your AWS account—without the need for third-party services.

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

Stay a step ahead of outages - implement robust, serverless uptime monitoring using AWS's Route 53, CloudWatch, and SNS.

Excuting a job with multiple configurations in parallel using Gitlab.

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