- 2023-02-196 minAutomated Cloud Security Remediation
Recently I have been looking into automated security remediation to understand its impacts, positive and negative. As I am a user of AWS, as well other cloud services, I was particularly interested in how it helped …
#052 - 2022-07-233 minMy Development Environment
I was inspired by others to document the tools I use working as a software developer professionally, and hacking on side projects out side of work. One thing to note is in my day job I work on an Apple Mac, but my …
#051 - 2022-07-054 minDiving into AWS Billing Data
Billing is an integral part of day to day AWS account operation, and to most it seems like a chore, however there is a lot to be learnt interacting with AWS Billing data. So why would you ever want to dive into AWS …
#050 - 2021-04-264 minGitHub Actions supply chain attacks
There has been a lot of press about supply chain attacks recently, these type of attacks are nothing new and understanding them is really important for developers using services such as GitHub Actions , given Continuos …
#049 - 2020-10-086 minWhy isn't my s3 bucket secure?
We have all read horror stories of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets being “hacked” in the popular media, and we have seen lots of work by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to tighten up controls and messaging around …
#048 - 2020-03-312 minAWS Events reading list
For some time now I have been working on internal, and some product related services which use AWS events, some of this has been paired with AppSync subscriptions , slack and AWS SNS . To help everyone come up to speed …
#047 - 2020-03-103 minStarting a Go Project
Given the changes with Go Modules I wanted to document a brief getting started for Go projects, this will focus on building a minimal web service. Before you start you will need to install Go, I recommend using homebrew …
#046 - 2020-03-104 minHow do I Structure my Go Project?
Assuming you read my Starting a Go Project post you should have the starting point for a minimal go web service. For your first project it is easier to keep all your code in one folder, in the base of your project, but …
#045 - 2019-12-224 minBuilding a WLToys A979 donkey car
In my spare time I spend a bit of time building and working on a scaled down self driving RC project which uses an opensource project called donkeycar . I have been through a few generations of car, learning how both the …
#044 - 2019-12-165 minGetting started with Cognito?
The AWS Cognito product enables developers to build web or API based applications without worrying about authentication and authorisation. When setting up an applications authentication I try to keep in mind a few goals: …
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