Dev, Test, Optimisation
Cloud Vulnerability and Security Scanning
Cloud Vulnerability Scanning can be defined as a process of identifying security risks in Cloud-based applications and infrastructure. Cloud Vulnerability Scan…
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Application TransformationGoogle apigee implementation
Provisioning overview (source) During provisioning, components are configured and created that allow bidirectional communication between a virtual private clou…
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Application TransformationGoogle apigee, overview and architecture
Source Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. By fronting services with a proxy layer, Apigee provides an abstraction or facade for your backen…
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AWS TechnologyService Mesh, Security and High Availability
What are they? Backend cloud services are the operations and routines end users don’t see but are essential to provide resilience and secure access to ba…
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Application TransformationResiliency and High Availability in the Cloud, some key principles
Resiliency in the Cloud is composed of many areas including: Failover (instances, servers) High Availability (multi-zones, regions) Backup Disaster Recovery (p…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationAutomate VM Provisioning and De-Provisioning, basic flows (with VMware)
Automating the provisioning of Virtual Machines includes using a SaaS or platform such as ServiceNow (ITSM), a CMDB (configuration management database), APIs, …
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Cloud Design GoalsMainframe Virtualisation and the Cloudy
Many large firms, especially Banks and Financial Institutions are moving to a Mainframe-Multi Cloud model of computing. This is a long term effort still in tra…
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AWS TechnologyBasic API Flow
End User, Security Group (JWT etc), to the Front End application, Proxy (nginx), to the API Gateway where policies are applied (Security, Throttling), to the A…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Organizations – overview
AWS offers a means to organisation the usage of the platform, and to manage multiple accounts within a single organisation. None of this is that straightforwar…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Fargate – introduction to managed containers
How Does Fargate Work? Fargate allows you to deploy containers without setting up or managing the infrastructure that will host them. You tell Fargate which co…
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AWS TechnologyAWS API Gateway, Lambda, SNS
AWS API Gateway is extremely powerful and easy to deploy. You don’t have to manage any infrastructure (i.e. no purchasing, scaling, patching), the gateway is c…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Cloudformation Basics
AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure-as-code tool that defines resources and their configurations in a standardized template — either a JavaScript Obj…
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