Our team has gone through a great deal of learning over the last year working remotely - learning how to communicate best, retain strong involvement internally, and tackle technical challenges. Despite the global situation, we have made fantastic progress in many areas and solved many complex problems. …

How screwed are we if our best people get hit by a bus? Imagine for a moment that you were an evil bus driver with a maniacal distaste for technology and software. You’ve decided to use your mastery of driving the bus to rid the world of both in the…

You see these little suckers everywhere now: at coffee shops, on signposts, in bank statements, and beyond. And while they provide an easy way to access information, they can very easily be abused to take your phone to sites with ill intent. A couple of months ago, our team had…

I’ll level with you. Some days everything breaks. You’ll wake up, and it feels like half of the internet is in disarray. Users won’t be able to log in or use a huge chunk of your app, and the issue will be out of your direct control. Panic sets in…

Sometimes in life we are just trying to get the job done and we may leave the oven on, lock ourselves out of our house, or forget to encrypt the volume storage attached to our servers. Try not to panic. Mistakes happen, which is why we have smoke alarms, why…

Our team came across an interesting issue a little while back where we needed to make sure some critical servers did not get exposed to the wider internet. While we could seriously limit the security groups, the situation demanded that under no circumstances should a public IP be present. Sounds…

Our team has gone through a great deal of learning over the last year working remotely — learning how to communicate best, retain strong involvement internally, and tackle technical challenges. Despite the global situation, we have made fantastic progress in many areas and solved many complex problems. …

I was doing some security upgrades when I ran into a particularly novel problem — once an instance is started there isn’t a magical button in AWS to remove an auto-assigned public IP. Certainly, there had to be others out there who have faced a similar issue? …

I was doing some security upgrades when I ran into a particularly novel problem — once an instance is started there isn’t a magical button in AWS to remove an auto-assigned public IP. Certainly, there had to be others out there who have faced a similar issue? …