Infrastructure as Code at Enterprise Scale: Identify the Right Approach for Your Organization
An in-depth look at the tools and guidelines to help scale your IaC approach One of the defining attributes of the cloud is that the resources it provides…
Planning Your Cloud Security Strategy? Here are 3 Things to Keep in Mind.
Whether you’re considering making a move to the cloud or planning to make enhancements to your current infrastructure, it’s important to have a solid security strategy in place….
Companies Keep Learning a Hard Lesson: The CD Projekt Red Hack
A few months ago, I posted an article about what DevOps and Security teams could learn from the SolarWinds hack. And now I’m back with another high-profile attack on a company that had their…
Continue ReadingTerraform: IaC at Enterprise Scale
Terraform is one of the most popular Infrastructure as Code tools for good reason. It supports all of the major public cloud platforms (and much more via a…
Azure Resource Manager: IaC at Enterprise Scale
If you’re using Azure, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is Microsoft’s native IaC solution. It provides a way to declaratively define infrastructure in JSON-formatted templates and deploy that infrastructure…
AWS CloudFormation: IaC at Enterprise Scale
One of the first IaC solutions, AWS CloudFormation, provisions infrastructure according to a declarative template that defines the desired state. Originally JSON only, these templates can now be…
Securing Remote Work with the Cloud
Five ways AWS Workspaces can help keep your applications and data safe during these challenging times So I don’t think it will surprise anyone if I make the…
Introducing Bounded Context: Exploring How Experts Solve Problems
I’ve always been interested in how people solve problems. Understanding their approach and what actions they pursue in search of a solution. I think about this a lot,…
7 Pipeline Design Patterns for Continuous Delivery
Business agility is built on code agility. For modern digital products and services, the ability to release on demand quickly and safely is a real competitive business advantage….
Every Branch Gets a Stack: A How-To Guide
Turbocharge your team’s development workflow with this strategy that provides quick feedback in a collaborative, no-risk environment Last year SingleStone set out to build its first SaaS solution. We…
How to Become a Cybersecurity Expert: Don Mills
In our last Q&A, we heard from cloud and DevOps aficionado Chris Belyea. This week, we sat down with Don Mills, cloud architect and cybersecurity guru. Don shares…
Excelling in Cloud and DevOps: Chris Belyea’s Career Progression
Last week, Chief Customer Officer Chrissy Keeton shared the challenges of change and identifying polarities at SingleStone. In this week’s Q&A, we’re talking all things DevOps…and all things cloud (quite literally). From NASA and rockets to helping…
A Career in Problem Solving: Ryan Shriver’s Consulting Evolution
In our last edition, you heard from Vida Williams and why she chose to join SingleStone. This week, we’re continuing our series on how SingleStone is redefining the…
Service Meshes for Infrastructure/DevOps Teams: An Introduction
Service meshes as a concept have been gradually growing in perception and usage over the past year or so. You may have heard the term mentioned in relation…
You’re Ready to Hire a DevOps Engineer: Focus on Six Traits
In my last post, I shared two DevOps Engineer personas to consider when hiring. Once the appropriate persona is identified, the next question clients often ask is: “What…
So, You Want to Hire a DevOps Engineer?
“Ryan, what type of DevOps engineer should we hire?”, is a question I’ve been asked by customer after customer. As much as I want to flippantly respond “A…
If It Ain’t Broke, Break It – Reflections From the Twin Cities Chaos Day
What is Chaos Engineering? Chaos Engineering is “the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions…
SingleStone’s DevOps Expertise
How do you deliver high-quality products that work quickly, efficiently, and sustainably for customers? This question is at the heart of our DevOps support. And rather than be…
SingleStone’s Cloud Expertise
Gone are the expensive, onerous days of managing offsite data centers. Today’s business environment demands the speed and agility that only the cloud offers. But, just because you’re…
CloudFormation Mapping and Conditionals: Making Your Templates More Universal
Learn about infrastructure as code and the benefits of AWS CloudFormation. Updated November 2019: When I originally wrote this article, CloudFormation was written in JSON only. Thank goodness…