by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 6, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Security, Strategy, Systems
Hey – I’m back! I’ve been heads-down learning what Cloud teams need to deliver to AWS securely and make IAM usable, and building that into a business delivered via SaaS & infrastructure code libraries: k9 Security. I’d like to share my...
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 | Apr 2, 2020 | Cloud, DevOps, Risk, Security, Strategy
Ever stared at a screenful of Cloud resources and wondered: Who owns this resource? What application does it belong to?Who should we call when the application is broken?Who should pay for this resource? Which applications are driving our costs?Do access controls...
by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 30, 2020 | DevOps, Systems
Helpful Engineering is designing, sourcing and executing projects to help people suffering from the COVID-19 crisis worldwide.https://www.helpfulengineering.org/ Vox described the mission, social dynamics, and challenges of self-organizing +10k people that just met:...