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Cloud Migration Process

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:20:12 +0100

How can I move my application to the cloud?

Colleagues, customers, and students alike asked me this question several times over the last 10 years. Let me outline the approach I would be using.

5 Lessons 5 Months

Wed, 18 May 2022 13:46:33 +0100

Sharing 5 learnings from 5 months as a manager for cybersecurity:

Password based authentication

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The ugly truth about passwords, or memorized secrets, is, that we still have way too many. They won’t go away any time soon either. They offer some benefits for the end user and the organisation providing password based authentication.

Level Up Your Everyday Cybersecurity Communication by Considering These Basics When Talking About Risks

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:44:14 +0100

I am dealing often with the issue of explaining how you get from a known deficit to actual risk for your organization. We will look into this by revisiting an issue a customer of mine had last year.

Automating Website CDK Github Actions

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

All source code for this example can be found at:

Static Website S3 Repository

Static Website Hosting 2022

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

All code for this blog post can be found at:

Static Website S3 Repository

PaleoAncestry

Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The scope of this project was to optimize and move an application to the cloud. The source code for the analysis pipeline was created for the use of university super-computer equipment. Another freelancer developed the frontend for the B2C offering. Any performance, UI/UX and scaling issues were not part of my tasks. I developed several different architecture patterns. Together with the customer we decided on the most suitable solution. Cost, scalability, and maintainability were the main factors to consider in this situation.

Footstock

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

At Footstock I moved from manual deployments to automated deployments on AWS. Footstock hosted all its source code on GitHub. We leveraged Github Actions as the continuous integration and delivery platform. At first, I created separate VPCs for production, testing, and development. Regulatory requirements made this separation necessary. I built infrastructure as code playbooks. They provided an easy way to create and tear down different setups fast. Technologies used were Fargate, RDS, KMS, IAM, and ALB.

Starflows

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Semantic Web Company

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000