March 4, 2024
EKS Fargate – Github Actions Runners
Running a CI/CD platform using your own runners can be daunting. Not from an implementation perspective, but more so from a scaling perspective. You may be asking, “How will our…
March 4, 2024
A No Ops Approach to Auto Healing Dataflow Pipelines with Site Reliability Engineering Principles
Here’s a No-Ops take on applying modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to developing an auto-healing capability for Dataflow pipelines in production on The Google Cloud Platform. In this article,…
March 3, 2024
AWS and Patching: Easily keep your instances up to date
This post is part of a series about Cloud Managed DevOps Service at CMD Solutions. This time however, we lift up the curtain a bit and show you how some…
March 3, 2024
Why We Dropped ECS in Favour of EKS
When undergoing Application Transformation, choosing a container orchestration solution is something almost every organisation using AWS will have to go through at some point. Having implemented a few Elastic Container…
March 1, 2024
Implementing AWS end user computing for Oil Search
Company Overview Secure, scalable defence-in-depth and compliant AWS foundation Scalable VDI solution to support graphics intensive applications Access to high performance computing without location and physical hardware restraints Papuan Oil…
March 1, 2024
Making the most of a ‘Lift and Shift’ Cloud Migration
Of all of the seven Rs of cloud migration, “lift and shift”, or “rehost”, is perhaps the easiest to do, yet in many people’s opinion provides the least benefit. As…
February 28, 2024
Google Cloud Data Fusion comparison with existing solutions
I’ve always enjoyed seeing tools that make tasks easier. Tools that bring more non-technical users close to specific areas like Machine Learning and Data Engineering, abstracting technical details and allowing…
February 26, 2024
How do I incorporate Design Thinking in Business Strategy?
We are in the midst of a customer-first revolution. When accessing services, people want to run their life with their phones. When purchasing products, they can (and do) leave reviews…
February 26, 2024
How to master product adoption using discovery
When thinking about building great products to hit critical mass, the product adoption curve is a popular conceptual tool. However, just because we read left to right, doesn’t mean we…