MULTIPLE HUGO ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION IN AZURE APP SERVICE
Test and introduction of new features to development environments first is very usual procedure which works when the testing rigs are as close to production as possible. Hugo provides some very convenient features to structure and apply configuration parameters for different environments for that purpose. In this article I want to discuss how this features can be used to deploy a Hugo Website to Azure Static Web App Services and how to apply the right configuration (production, development) when building the static web app files using GitHub Actions.
RANSOMWARE REQUIRES THE RIGHT BACKUP AND RECOVERY STRATEGY
This guest post was first published in Informatik-Aktuell on January 19, 2022 in German. The following article is a translation with some editorial changes. Companies face a constant threat from cyber attacks. Undiscovered security vulnerabilities and new types of attacks are constantly opening up new attack vectors that make notches in your own IT security. Breakthroughs are only a matter of time and can hardly be prevented in the long term.
USING AWS OUTPOSTS FOR RAILWAY OPERATIONS CLOUD AT SBB
On October 17, 2023 our project was presented on the AWS Cloud Day Zurich 2023 by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). It put its High Availability and Low Latency On-Premise (HALON) Cloud Platform based on AWS Outpost to display for a public audience attending the event. I was very thrilled to watch the presentation and check the crowd reactions. In this article a want to give a short sum up of the presentation, some insights from conversations on the fare and some background info on SBB.
DEPLOY AWS CDK TO DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS USING PROFILES
When using AWS CDK it is very common to deploy your application (or better CDK stacks) to multiple environments. Those can either be stages (dev, test, prod), tenants or other. Depending on your environment you will find different strategies applied for segregation these environments for example (list is not exhaustive): AWS accounts, AWS regions, IAM user (& access key) or IAM roles. When starting with AWS CDK, the available methods for managing access to multiple environments might not come to one naturally.
HOW TO USE AWS SDK TO RETRIEVE DATA FOR YOUR AWS CDK APP
In this article I discuss the concept of fetching information on AWS resources during deployment of an AWS CDK application using AWS SDK (for JavaScrip v2). If you are not familiar with those tools feel free to check the official documentation for some basics. Lately I was involved in a AWS CDK project using Typescript to implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC). The goal was to reuse code and deploy infrastructure consistently across different environments.
ENTERPRISE! USE YOUR SUSTAINABILITY DATA TO SAVE THE PLANET!
The usability of sustainability data is a major problem especially when it is locked up in silos. Leveraging existing corporate data for pursuing global climate targets becomes even more difficult for enterprises which requires some “out-of-box-thinking” or creative approaches. The problem can be translated into the following question: How can enterprises break down their data silos silos to enable sustainability data initiatives? Creativity Workshop on identifying and using Sustainability Data in Enterprises Together with 12 User Experience Experts we discussed this issue in a 2 hours workshop “Enterprise!
HOW TO DEPLOY A FREE WEBSITE AND CI/CD-PIPELINE USING AZURE AND GITHUB
As many others I started my personal website journey with Wordpress. Since it is the most popular content management systems and is supported by a large community of developers it became the go-to solution. Especially if one considers the fact that endless hosting providers offer Wordpress instances as managed services. But at times Wordpress can be an overkill in complexity and cost for small personal projects. When your budget is small and your spare time is limited there are the following caveats with Wordpress (and other dynamic frameworks of course) which make it difficult to host it as a free website:
GUEST POST ON BACKUP AND RECOVERY FROM RANSOMWARE
Companies and governmental institutions around the globe face an increase in cyber attacks. The potential damage hackers can cause correlate with the possible amount of money to be extorted of victims. The cyber security threats organizations are exposed to are quite significant and should be considered in every organization’s backup & disaster recovery strategy. In my current role at Detecon I had the chance to publish an article with Informatik Aktuell, a german online IT news outlet, to elaborate current and future Cyber Security threats and their impact on corporate backup & disaster recovery strategies.