“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” - while legacy architecture designs have helped us serve award winning apps for our clients back in the day, change was slow and deployments and maintenance tasks were always a headache requiring too much planning, effort and overhead. …

The Well Architected Framework, put together by AWS, is a model to help architects and engineers design and build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure, on any platform. At Tigerspike, we pride ourselves on having the right people, resources and experience to design and build cutting edge technology for, and…

Back in March, I wrote a post on how to build Golden Images using Packer on AWS CodeBuild. Today, let me show you how to do even better builds with AWS EC2 Image Builder! We’ve been using Packer at Tigerspike for quite a while now to build servers (if we’re…

Does your CloudFormation Stack Update require a Clean Up of existing resources first to be able to create new ones, but the Clean Up cannot happen before the creation of the new resources is complete? Circular dependency? Catch-22? Here’s how to solve it. I admit, this is quite rare; but surely a few others ran into it like me. So, here is my scenario: We have a CloudFormation template which has…

I cannot emphasise enough how useful AWS CodeBuild is, but I thought I would list “some” of its powerful and smart uses we have adopted in our pipelines; because at Tigerspike, our inquisitive nature brings insight and innovation. Back in the day, and I’m talking a few years ago, like…

Ever wondered how to guarantee consistency between multiple environments and servers? Here is how. At Tigerspike, we thrive on innovation. #our_inquisitive_nature_brings_insight_and_innovation One of the tricks our teams have started using a couple of years ago now is what is commonly known as the Golden Image. What is a Golden Image? The concept is simple. Launch…

Do you want to automate creating secrets to fully secure them away from humans? Or do you have a requirement to rotate database passwords regularly and wonder if you can automate it? It’s all possible with Secrets Manager. Let me take you through it step by step. As mentioned in…

Access management, secure storage, key rotation and managed encryption are as easy as ticking boxes since we migrated our hosting and workloads to AWS! At Tigerspike, Security is a top priority alongside Improving People’s Lives Through Technology. …

I found this post in my old notes.. that I was planning to publish… 3 years ago! Still relevant though, so here it is slightly edited if anyone is looking for tips in this topic: At Tigerspike, We Solve Problems in Remarkable Ways. One of our goals, as a global…