Handling Credential Zero

Managing secrets is a criicial part of any infrastructure. In this post, we'll discuss how to handle the "credential zero" problem in Infrastructure as Code. What is Credential Zero? Credential Zero is the concept that there is a point in your infrastructure where you need to provide a secret to get access to other secrets. … Continue reading Handling Credential Zero

AWS Has a Lambda Problem

I used AWS in the early days before cloud computing was buzz or reality. The company where I was employed was developing a new website for selling products and they had a massive number of SKUs and tons of high-resolution product images. The old website was hosted at a colocation facility adjacent to the local … Continue reading AWS Has a Lambda Problem

Embrace at Least Some of Immutable Infrastructure

With respect to immutability, the first exposure many folks in technology experience with with arrays. An array is a contiguous space of memory for elements of the same time to be groups together. We can quickly read the element because they're accessed sequentially. However, this adjacency limits our ability to expand because any new elements … Continue reading Embrace at Least Some of Immutable Infrastructure