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The Rise of Platform Engineering: Why It's Essential for Your Organisation

The Evolution of DevOps - The Golden Age Let's wind the clock back a couple of decades to the late 90s and early 2000s, a time when most organisations had a single gatekeeper: the system or IT adminis

April 10, 2023

7 min

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🎯 🚀 The Ultimate Guide to Software Engineering, Zombie Apocalypse Style

This guide presents a comprehensive set of rules for software engineering inspired by the movie Zombieland. The rules are not simply a list of arbitrary guidelines, but rather a carefully crafted set

April 6, 2023

3 min

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Best Practices for Building Multi-Cloud Modules in Terraform

Organisations today are increasingly adopting cloud services from different providers to meet their business needs. However, managing multi-cloud infrastructure can be challenging, especially when it

April 6, 2023

14 min

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Let's Dive into AWS CloudFront

What is AWS CloudFront? AWS CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN). It securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds. I

April 5, 2023

6 min

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What is DevOps?

DevOps is more than just a software development methodology – it's a culture. The DevOps culture emphasizes 3 main pillars: collaboration, communication, and shared responsibility between development

April 4, 2023

3 min

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Deploy a web app to S3 with CloudFront Invalidation via GitHub Actions

In this guide, we will show you how to set up a GitHub Actions workflow to deploy your web application to S3 and invalidate your cache on CloudFront for your end users. The guide includes prerequisite

April 3, 2023

6 min

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Intro to Microsoft Azure

What is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides businesses and organizations with a range of services and tools to help them manage their cloud infrastructure effe

April 2, 2023

2 min

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Why fastlane is the future of mobile app deployments

The Problem Engineering teams these days find it troublesome to build, test and deploy their mobile application changes locally without having to maintain the tools required for it. There is a lot of

April 2, 2023

12 min

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Let's Dive into AWS Lambda

What is AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. W

April 1, 2023

6 min

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Serverless Stack, a Terraform alternative for developers

Picture yourself being able to confidently deploy your application, whether it's full-stack or partially serverless, without having to rely on your DevOps or Platform team. Envision yourself seamlessl

April 1, 2023

9 min

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How to set up an index alias that points to multiple indices in Elasticsearch

Index aliasing is a powerful feature in Elasticsearch that gives us the ability to control the indices. One could create as many indices as possible and use an alias to point to the right index or one

March 26, 2023

3 min

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Terraforming in the Cloud

This post discusses the benefits of using Terraform for cloud automation. It explains the limitations of manual infrastructure management, the inception of IaC and how Terraform can help mitigate thos

March 26, 2023

8 min

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