S3 on Head for the Cloud

Presentation: SREDays London

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A shared presentation with Ross Walker, looking at an issue we encountered building an event driven system.

AWS Community Day Belfast

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

My presentation at the AWS Community Day in Belfast - Mystery of the Disappearing S3 Keys

DevOps Playground

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A DevOps Playground looking at how we can host a serverless blogging platform using AWS services, and Hugo - a static site generator.

Now You See Me, Now You Don't - the Mystery of the Vanishing S3 Objects

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of the great things about my role as a consultant at GlobalLogic is that sometimes I’ll be asked to help out on what at first glance can be a simple problem, but as I investigate, I get a chance to uncover some unusual or forgotten features.

Recently, I was working on a project and was asked if I could help solve an issue that had been puzzling a developer. They had deployed a system where some objects uploaded to an S3 bucket seemed to disappear and then reappear; it was time to start digging.

Using AWS EventBridge to avoid getting Lost in Translation

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t rewrite your code, rewrite your data with EventBridge Input Transformation!

Hosting a Hugo static website in AWS

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This post is part of a series about hosting a static website, and I’ll be talking about the infrastructure needed to host the website in AWS, and how to deploy via infrastructure as code (IaC). In this post, we’ll use Terraform to describe the infrastructure we want to deploy

Our infrastructure

I use Hugo to run this blog - it generates static HTML pages based on files written with Markdown which means that I don’t need to worry about running servers. To host this blog, I deploy several resources into an AWS account to host this blog, as shown below: