Remote Working Challenges and Opportunities
Because of COVID-19, firms are moving to a remote-first model in a hurry. What does that mean for productivity?
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Update your RDS SSL certificates
Have you recently logged into your AWS console and seen this message in RDS? The RDS team at AWS are replacing the root certificate that protects …
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Security and Compliance in the Cloud
What’s useful, where to start and how this all relates to operational realities.
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Multi Account AWS Infrastructures with tfctl
At The Scale Factory we’ve been building secure, multi-account AWS infrastructures for a long time - well before AWS Organizations was a thing. Today …
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AWS Security Features for SaaS Workloads
As a cloud service provider, you’re responsible for making sure that the application code, the infrastructure to run it, and your customers’ data are …
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Cloud Tenancy Types to Suit Everyone
Pick the right model to suit your SaaS product and your set of customers.
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What I Learnt from Releasing an Open Source Tool
A few weeks ago The Scale Factory released s3audit, a command line tool for auditing the settings of AWS S3 buckets. Photo by Joshua Aragon on …
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Using Multiple kubectl Versions with Minimal Faff
In a previous article I explained how subcommands let developers make command line tools that other people can extend. Here’s a way to use that …
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Securing S3 Buckets with s3audit
These days it can seem like we don’t have to wait very long for another data breach involving an insecure S3 bucket. Such data breaches generally …
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