The trouble with Fargate Spot
Thinking of using Fargate Spot to save money serving your website? It’s not as simple as it looks
Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not
“Talent Is Everywhere, Opportunity Is Not.” I feel this phrase sums up our experiences over the last 7 years of sourcing and selecting talent for the Scale Factory Academy to fill our own consulting requirements as well as our clients. Our Academy provides bright, driven and capable pre-trained graduate individuals who will relocate to your […]
The 12 Factor Container
How do the Twelve Factors fit into a cloud-native world?
Remote Pair Programming
Some of the tools we’ve used for remote pair programming, tested and reviewed.
Git tips and tricks
A few Git tips I’ve learned the hard way.
Update your RDS SSL certificates
Have you recently logged into your AWS console and seen this message in RDS?
Security and Compliance in the Cloud
What’s useful, where to start and how this all relates to operational realities.
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 architects are spoilt for choice with solutions like Landing Zone, Control Tower and, coming soon, the Terraform Landing Zone. All of those let you provision new accounts at the press of […]
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 all available when your customers expect them to be. You can make use of the security controls already available from your cloud infrastructure provider to help secure your workload. Here’s an […]
Cloud Tenancy Types to Suit Everyone
Pick the right model to suit your SaaS product and your set of customers.