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The Value of AWS Partners — APN Competencies, Certifications & Benefits

Cloud Native Application Development / By Mauricio Ashimine

According to Flexera’s 2021 State of Cloud report, AWS remains a firm favorite public cloud service for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). This wide adoption of Amazon public cloud services is made possible with the help of AWS Partners, who make great efforts to move businesses from legacy networks to cloud infrastructures through adoption and …

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How to Implement Cloud Migration Automation

AWS / By Mauricio Ashimine

Cloud adoption is now increasing day by day. 30% of all IT budgets are allocated to adopting cloud computing services. To ensure the cost-effectiveness of such budget allocation, maximize your cloud migration processes through automation. Automating cloud migrations creates reliable, repeatable results across multiple environments to accelerate and simplify the entire migration process. Achieve cloud …

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Using Best Practices & Cloud Native AWS Services to Strengthen Security Posture

Cloud Security / By Mauricio Ashimine

According to Sophos, over 70% of organizations hosting their workload on the cloud faced a security incident in 2020. With the increasing number of threats on the horizon, cloud security is becoming more crucial for organizations of all sizes to keep their data secured. These threats are avoidable by utilizing cloud-native AWS services to enhance …

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CDK8S for Kubernetes: How to interact with Kubernetes without KubeCTL

Cloud Migration & Modernization, DevOps, Kubernetes / By Mauricio Ashimine

Introduction Kubernetes has become the most popular DevOps tools in the industry. From startups to enterprises, everyone is leveraging the power of containerization by running their application in containers inside the Kubernetes cluster. To work with Kubernetes, you need to create YAML files which contain all the cluster resources, services, deployments detail. YAML is human-readable …

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Building Pipelines with Terraform Cloud

Cloud Technology, Terraform / By Mauricio Ashimine

Having a robust and effective CI/CD pipeline is the key to shorter sprints and effective iterations of cloud-native applications. In order to push updates regularly and successfully, you have to incorporate a number of things into the pipeline, including testing and security. Terraform is used to build, maintain, and update cloud infrastructure. It runs from …

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Spotlight on Tugboat Logic

Cloud Security / By Mauricio Ashimine

Does the idea of removing the misery out of security and compliance procedures through automation sound unbelievable? By streamlining the process of building and maintaining your InfoSec program, Tugboat Logic’s security assurance platform simplifies compliance, drives employee security awareness, and reduces friction in enterprise sales operations. The roots of automation in software engineering go as …

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Managing Secrets in Terraform

Cloud Security, Terraform / By Mauricio Ashimine

Terraform is one of the top tools available on the market to use if you want to manage and implement infrastructure as code. Terraform does more than just configuration. The platform is capable of handling the entire orchestration runtime using declarative code instead of a procedural one. There is no need to go through a …

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What is Containerd?

Containers / By Mauricio Ashimine

When we talk about container runtime, we immediately think about Docker. Docker was the original container runtime; at the very least, it was the runtime that triggered the cloud boom that we are experiencing today. Docker allows virtualization to be far more robust and scalable by running containers and freeing developers from conventional cloud infrastructure …

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The Principles of Chaos Engineering

DevOps / By Mauricio Ashimine

Resilience is something those who use Kubernetes to run apps and microservices in containers aim for. When a system is resilient, it can handle losing a portion of its microservices and components without the entire system becoming inaccessible. Resilience is achieved by integrating loosely coupled microservices. When a system is resilient, microservices can be updated …

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AWS EC2 Image Builder: Automating OS Image Build Pipelines

AWS / By Mauricio Ashimine

Automation continues to be a major growing trend in today’s cloud infrastructure landscape. Service providers like Amazon Web Services are integrating better, more advanced automation tools to make the life of administrators easier. Automation allows for workflows to be more efficient, especially with more tasks being executed without the need for human input. Until very …

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Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics and Service Lens

AWS / By Mauricio Ashimine

Real-time monitoring is invaluable in today’s market. Everyone is trying to deliver the best user experience, so there is a higher need for capable and reliable cloud services to support the overall performance of your app. Being able to monitor the entire cloud environment in real-time is a huge plus. As a cloud service provider, …

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Kubernetes Development in Real-Time with Skaffold

Containers / By Mauricio Ashimine

There is no shortage now of development and CI/CD tools for cloud-native application development. Developers are being pampered with options, especially when it comes to managing the CD pipeline in conjunction with Kubernetes—one of which is Skaffold. As mentioned in multiple articles before this, Kubernetes offers a lot of flexibility, but it isn’t the easiest …

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Understanding Kubernetes Interfaces: CRI, CNI, & CSI

Cloud Migration & Modernization, Kubernetes / By Mauricio Ashimine

Kubernetes is designed to support modular cloud-native applications from the ground up, so it is not surprising to find the platform to be equally modular and flexible. Kubernetes incorporates plugins, add-ons, services, and interfaces to extend the core functionalities of the platform. Kube’s integral configuration is how you can make changes and customize your environment, …

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Achieving SOC 2 Compliance

Compliance / By Mauricio Ashimine

Information security is even more important nowadays with more and more companies operating in the cloud than ever before. While there are a lot of security measures that can be deployed to better protect data stored in the cloud, there is no specific guidance on how to achieve maximum security; increasing (and ever-changing) cyberattacks are …

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Are You 12-Factor Application Ready?

Cloud Migration & Modernization, Kubernetes / By Mauricio Ashimine

There are a lot of frameworks in app development, but not all of them are tailored for today’s cloud environment. Many of them lack modularity and flexibility; some don’t even leverage the benefits of using cloud computing. The 12-Factor application principles are designed specifically for modern, containerized cloud environments from the beginning. Each component is …

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Improving Kubernetes Observability and Monitoring

Cloud Migration & Modernization, Kubernetes / By Mauricio Ashimine

Monitoring has always been a big part of solutions design. It is a continuous process of data collection about a system for the purpose of analyzing that system. Monitoring is usually done in an active way, with a tool pinging or probing a system in order to get responses. Those responses are then analyzed to …

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The Biggest Performance Testing Obstacles

AWS / By Mauricio Ashimine

Performance testing is a crucial part of the development process, but it is also one of the most overlooked steps in a development cycle. Not many developers are…

The Benefits of Going Serverless

Cloud Native Application Development / By Mauricio Ashimine

Going serverless is turning into a big trend this past year. Thanks to the nature of cloud computing, you no longer have to maintain your own physical servers or even settle…

Mauricio Ashimine

The Value of AWS Partners — APN Competencies, Certifications & Benefits

CDK8S for Kubernetes: How to interact with Kubernetes without KubeCTL

Building Pipelines with Terraform Cloud

Spotlight on Tugboat Logic

Managing Secrets in Terraform

What is Containerd?

The Principles of Chaos Engineering

AWS EC2 Image Builder: Automating OS Image Build Pipelines

Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics and Service Lens

Kubernetes Development in Real-Time with Skaffold

Understanding Kubernetes Interfaces: CRI, CNI, & CSI

Achieving SOC 2 Compliance

Are You 12-Factor Application Ready?

Improving Kubernetes Observability and Monitoring

The Biggest Performance Testing Obstacles

The Benefits of Going Serverless

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