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DTS Summer Internship at Centrica
17 August 2021 - 3 min read
Starting my internship as a product engineer, I was excited but also curious as to how it would be since ...
Categories: AWS Cloudformation DynamoDB Lambda
Reporting on AWS
19 June 2021 - 5 min read
Data, such as that generated by The Lambda Hunter needs to be stored somewhere so that it can be reported ...
Categories: AWS Python DynamoDB Cloudformation
The Lambda Hunter
16 June 2021 - 3 min read
Finding deprecated lambda runtimes in an Organisation
Categories: AWS Python Lambda Trusted Advisor Wavefront
EBS Volume Migration In Action
16 June 2021 - 6 min read
A few weeks ago one of my engineers wrote about a scalable solution for migrating from gp2 to gp3 disks ...
Categories: AWS EBS Automation Lambda Python Threading
Director Lambda Architecture
1 June 2021 - 2 min read
While managing more than one AWS account you collect lots of scripts on your personal machine that generate information about ...
Categories: AWS Automation Lambda Python Threading
EBS Volume Migration
1 June 2021 - 6 min read
On December 1st, 2020 AWS announced the availability of gp3, the next generationof General Purpose SSD (Solid State Drive) Volumes ...
Categories: AWS EBS Automation Lambda Python Threading
Change Management at Scale and Speed
15 April 2021 - 4 min read
As an SRE team responsible for managing hundreds of Cloud Accounts for Centrica it goes without saying that we rely ...
Categories: Change-Management
Automating governance in the Cloud with AWS and Azure
13 April 2021 - 4 min read
The goal of automating governance is to improve productivity and raise compliance and best practice by using automation in the ...
Categories: AWS Azure
Multi-region Active-Active k8s
12 April 2021 - 5 min read
So you’re busy playing pong with your new monkey LinkedIn contact when a call comes in on the bat-phone (read ...
Categories: AWS Containers
Ember Upgrade Sprints
8 April 2021 - 4 min read
In this post I will share how we update our apps and the benefits of the new upgrade sprint process ...
Categories: Ember