How to build lean software, create more value through engineering and change your company culture forever — A pandemic hit us hard a few years back. At that time, every startup was building the Airbnb for this or the Uber of that. The technology industry was convinced that startups could only be worthwhile if they looked like a Platform; if they aspired to be the next Facebook. …

Here is a quick tutorial on how you can create free SSL certificates for your AWS deployments. If you’re on AWS and hosting a large workload, you can actually get free certificates from Amazon by using their Certificate Manager. However these certificates can only be attached to an AWS Load…

Configuring CloudFront to support push-state URLs — This one seems like an easy one, however I’m appalled by how much time can be wasted configuring AWS for static website hosting and there must be a better way: — serverless: we will be hosting static assets so no messing around with servers for that — cheap and ultra-performant…

There is a plethora of products who want to help us with running our application in the cloud. Unfortunately, none of them covers the entirety of what we need. Sometimes we need to bring our own server. Or they take care of hosting but we can’t access the underlying infrastructure. …

Docker Machine is the single easiest way to provision a new Docker host or machine. I use it to setup new remote staging servers and it takes a minute at most. It selects an appropriate Linux distribution for the Docker Engine and installs the Docker daemon, all in one go. …

The biggest mistake I see by freelancers and consultants is sending proposals they are not happy with. You give a discount for no clear reason. You think your rates are too low. You negotiate poorly and meet in the middle. When that proposal gets accepted, you are happy with the…

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There is something very powerful about automating even the little things. We sometimes think as automation as the simple maths of saving a given number of minutes/seconds by a given number of times a day but the compound effect is much greater. As you will be setting up more automation…

A guide to networking, security, autoscaling and high-availability It’s not an easy task to set up durable architecture for your web application. And if you try to build it as you go, you’ll soon get tired of clicking around the AWS console. What if you had one go-to architecture and…