Devops Blog
10 Cloud and Web Security Questions You Should Be Asking
If you run a SaaS business or mission critical software, the security of your web platform is crucial to your success. You may not, however, know the questions to ask your technical staff or outsourced providers. Knowing the answers to these questions can highlight vulnerabilities you need to address before they become a nightmare scenario. This list and associated recommendations are not...
AWS for Startups (and everyone else): Optimization Factors
Startups face unique challenges from financing to user engagement to hiring and more. One of the most important but often underestimated elements is cloud infrastructure as a critical component for success. I've worked with companies in every stage of growth on their AWS environment and it's typically startups or organizations new to the cloud that can benefit the most from strong devops...
AWS: Latency Routing with API Gateway and haproxy
I recently had the pleasure of working with the great team at Chameleon to migrate to AWS lambda and API Gateway. The primary goal was to geographically route users to the closest region for the lowest latency possible. One important requirement was that the files served to client websites must be real-time and not cached so customers could see their changes immediately. We tried this...
A Quick Guide To Securing Your Digital Life
If you've heard all the latest news about stolen passwords and identity theft, you probably want to feel more secure, but you don't know where to start. This post is intended to give you a quick step-by-step guide to securing and backing up your valuable data. While this is not a comprehensive tutorial, I have added explanations to help clarify some of the suggestions. I'll link to tutorials...
Dave Stern, President
My company Stern Devops Group provides devops, cloud architecture, automation and security consulting primarily in AWS. Our focus is scaling platforms for massive growth, increasing developer productivity and driving infrastructure costs down.