by Stephen Kuenzli | Aug 24, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps
Flow by Hamish Weir I am building a product that runs on AWS. I am currently solo and that means I do it all: development, delivery, and operations. The main reason I built the application using serverless technology was to offload as much of the operational workload... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 13, 2020 | DevOps
What questions should engineers ask in a DevOps interview to understand the organization’s DevOps maturity? These questions should not be about specific tools and platforms. They should be about people, processes, how we get work done, and how we collaborate.... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jun 22, 2020 | DevOps
Photo by Arūnas Naujokas Reading Time: 2 minutes Empathy is the ability to understand another person’s feelings and perspectives, and to use that understanding to guide our actions (Krznaric, Greater Good). Dr. Brene Brown’s illustrated introduction to... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 13, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Security
Last week I presented ‘Secure an S3 Bucket (and still use it)’ at the Phoenix DevOps meetup. I’m trying to help people understand why and how to protect every S3 bucket with data that needs to remain confidential. We hosted the meetup using Zoom.... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 10, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Security
Securing data in S3 is a nightmare for many people. Data breaches from insecure AWS S3 buckets make the news weekly and it’s not just clickbait. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is the world’s most successful object storage service. It offers a wide set of... 