I find one of the most annoying features of AWS is the strict divide between different regions. With this post and a new Cloudformation feature from AWS I will show you how to deploy infrastructure across multiple regions with a single “master” template. Consider a service like GuardDuty. You don’t really care whether the alerts … Continued
So you’ve now got your basic IT set up at home to get you working productively. But unless you’re a company of 1, you will still need to communicate with your colleagues even if they aren’t co-located. You could all start emailing each other, but that rapidly descends into an awful chain of emails where … Continued
Current situations mean that a lot of businesses, all of a sudden, are telling employees to work from home. But it’s not as simple as just doing it. There are some basic steps that need to be taken to ensure that you can get set up properly to work from home, and your IT settings … Continued
In the Care team, we end up working on a lot of different tasks. Some billable projects, some internal work and some other things like deployments out of working hours. Time tracking was starting to either take more time than the time it was tracking or be glossed over. “Yesterday was project Cox” and forget … Continued
The form.io documentation on how to get things working is a little vague. It mostly refers to the Docker container, which I don’t like using, you never know what’s in there or what has been done that you might not like. Although, we’re running code straight off the internet anyway, so if people wanted to … Continued
Many applications use TLS/SSL to connect their components together. During development, unless you have lots of time and/or money you won’t have a signed certificate. Even if you have a free CA server, the chances are, your development instance was thrown up from Vagrant or a fresh AWS instance that doesn’t trust your CA. (Unless you … Continued
If you ask AWS to give your instance a public address but don’t allocate an “Elastic IP address” then you get a dynamic address from a pool. That causes problems only when you stop/start (eg NOT when you reboot). So it will only bite you much, much, later. EIPs are in slightly short supply and … Continued
One of the great things about working for a small company is that you never know which technology you might need to work on. We don’t have a database team or a network team or a hardware team (we don’t have any hardware!), there are just a few of us doing everything. The latest thing to … Continued
And so we reach the last (our seventh) in our series of weekly blogs, all under the title “Keep it safe: Sharing with Surevine”. To recap… In our first post we introduced the series, with our theme of Passwords, and focussed on Password Storage. In week 2 we took it one step further, and talked … Continued
Welcome our sixth instalment in a series of blogs we are publishing each week, all under the title “Keep it safe: Sharing with Surevine”. In our first post we introduced the series, with our theme of Passwords, and focussed on Password Storage. In week 2 we took it one step further, and talked about Password … Continued