Cloud & Engineering

We regularly write about our technical experiences (good and bad) and what we're learning from the market.

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Cloud Migration Factory - Automated, Innovative and Agile

Posted by Gaurav Sapra AND Varun Karthik on 17 February 2023

Cloud Strategy, Digital Transformation, strategy, innovation, aws, agility, Infrastructure as Code, Solution Architecture, terraform, GitLab, Hybrid-cloud, governance, runsheet, customer-centric, Cloud Migrations

“Cloud Migration Factory increases the velocity of migration and helps provide discovery & planning guidelines with architectural best practices, automated tools & templates, collaboration with migration experts & different subject matter experts, with complete governance & reporting around all the different...

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AWS Account Cleaner

Posted by Everett Toews on 27 September 2022

aws, AWS Account Cleaner, AWSweeper, ReadOnlyAccess

Whether you’re new to AWS and just learning or you’re a seasoned veteran, working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) usually involves extensive experimentation. That means constantly creating, reading, updating, and deleting resources as you experiment. However, sometimes you may forget to delete something or AWS auto...

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Transform your data with dbt and Serverless architecture

Posted by Emad Elagouz on 28 October 2020

Serverless, DevOps, automation, aws, Fast-Data

This article is co-written with Robert Li 

Robert is a Lead in the Data Team at AMP Capital.

He is passionate about building data and analytics applications that empower people to do their best work.

What this article is not

We love dbt and believe it is a great tool to manage your data transformation. This article...

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Simplification of AWS networking scenarios using Transit Gateway

Posted by Sumit Gaur on 11 August 2020

Cloud Strategy, Microservices, aws, Infrastructure as Code, Networking, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure, transit gateway, multicloud, multi-VPC, Hybrid-cloud, multi-Account, AWS VPC, VPC peering, Inter-Account, Inter-Region, On-premises, Multicast

The purpose of this blog is to help readers understand various scenarios where we can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) network component Transit Gateway and optimise the platform architecture by simplification of network components.

AWS Transit Gateway enables efficient network connectivity and routing for AWS's multi-...

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Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 3, Operate

Posted by Emad Elagouz on 28 July 2020

Serverless, Technology, Best Practice, aws, lambda

Introduction

This post is part 3 of a 3 part series.

  1. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 1 Design
  2. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 2 Build
  3. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 3 Operate (this)

In the previous blogs of this series we covered design and build...

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Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 2, Build

Posted by Emad Elagouz and Umar Purnomo on 16 June 2020

Serverless, Technology, Best Practice, aws, lambda

Introduction

This post is part 2 of a 3 part series.

  1. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 1 Design
  2. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 2 Build (this)
  3. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 3 Operate (stay tuned)

In our previous blog we discussed some of the design...

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Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 1, Design

Posted by Emad Elagouz and Umar Purnomo on 05 May 2020

Serverless, Technology, aws, lambda

Introduction

This post is part of a series

  1. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 1 Design (this)
  2. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 2 Build
  3. Serverless Patterns and Best Practices for AWS - Part 3 Operate

One of the more recent developments in cloud computing and products is that of...

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Test & Audit Infrastructure with Inspec

Posted by Akila Amarathunga on 24 October 2019

test, aws, audit, Infrastructure as Code, Inspec, terraform, Chef, cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure

Overview

The core of any business is the underlying infrastructure. Over the years, the infrastructure landscape has evolved at a significant pace. Initially, there were traditional data centres. Then there were data centre co-location services. These days Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud platforms are more...

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#PEtechtalk in Melbourne | August edition

Posted by Michael Kandelaars on 05 September 2019

platforms, kubernetes, aws, Solution Architecture, open data, petechtalk

Last week Deloitte Platform Engineering launched a new Platform Engineers meetup in Melbourne. #PEtechtalk is for engineers, by engineers. It was my privilege to be one of the speakers on the night presenting Deloitte’s OpenDATA platform, alongside Nicholas Faiz from News Corp presenting “TCOG, from Monolith to SOA”....

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AWS Elasticsearch Snapshot Archival for the Brave

Posted by Rahul Sharma on 22 August 2018

Architecture, Logging, tech, aws, audit, archive, elasticsearch

Data retention has become a crucial topic over the past few years, with organisations continuously exploring better ways to define and implement secure processes that cater to their needs. This becomes increasingly difficult when most of our data is stored/generated in the cloud, hence, requiring a flexible and...

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