#DevOps

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Team Building El año 2020 trajo consigo grandes cambios en nuestra forma de vida. La inesperada y repentina crisis generada por la pandemia del COVID 19 tuvo profundas implicancias en nuestra rutina laboral. La modalidad de trabajo remoto o “home office” fue una tendencia forzada por la nueva realidad, cambiando súbitamente las costumbres y riquezas que trae consigo compartir una oficina. Modificamos nuestra manera de concebir el trabajo, nos adaptamos, pero siempre añoramos

AWS S3 with CloudFront, high-performance security

Services Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service built for high-performance security, and developer convenience can be used as the frontend of many services (S3 Buckets, ELB’s, media distribution, and any other HTTP server running in ec2 instance or any other kind of host). Besides, Cloudfront uses edge locations to cache copies of the content that it serves, so the content is closer to users and can be delivered to them faster. Edge locations are AWS da

Technological Challenges for Startups in 2022

A couple of years ago talking about Covid-19 was something new for all of us, today it is already daily bread so much that it sounds like a cliché, but as humans, we have overcome the arrival of this virus in a large percentage and in the same way they have made many companies that were affected and had to find new ways to sell their products and services. As 2022 begins, there is more attention than ever on early-stage startups as they have played a major role in driving eco

AWS Dry-Run

Sometimes, we want to know if we have the necessary permissions to execute a certain command, but we don’t really want to execute it! And let’s say that for some reason we can’t access IAM and check our permissions For this, we have --dry-run, a parameter that is applicable to some commands that we can use in our AWS CLI. Suppose we want to know if our user has the necessary permissions to run instances! we have a test user, teratip. A correct example of run-instances would b

What are we talking about when we talk about service delivery?

How many times a day do we see search posts for Service Delivery Managers? How many people have this experience described in their professional profiles? But, do we know what it is about? Do we know what areas it covers? And what knowledge should Service Delivery Manager have? If we search the web, we will see that Service Delivery is a framework that encompasses a set of principles, standards, policies, and restrictions that will be used to guide designs, development, implem

Easy CodeCommit authentication with git-remote-codecommit

There is a new and much easier way to interact with CodeCommit repositories from git. Forget the times when you need to run git config for setting helper scripts for authentication and enter the XXI century with git-remote-codecommit. In a nutshell, this new git helper gives you two features: Authenticate using your aws cli credentials automatically Use a new codecommit:// protocol that simplifies the url and naming of the repositories. How to install it Install the helper wi

CyberSecurity Month: Tips to avoid being phished

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. And just today, Twitch has been breached, badly. How does this relate to phishing, you wonder? Well, 91% of cyberattacks start with Phishing, that’s how. Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent message designed to trick a victim into revealing sensitive information to the attacker or to deploy malicious software on the victim's infrastructure like ransomware. Bad actors continually capitalize on

Data fundamentals on AWS: Data Pipelines

As our world becomes more and more data-oriented, we need good conceptual frameworks for communicating our ideas and for making the best design decisions. On one hand, this blog post describes a mental model of a data processing pipeline with two main goals: to establish common language and concepts and to help us to design data pipeline architectures following the best practices. From a practical standpoint, this framework will guide you in designing and evaluating any data

Introducing ec2-instance-selector

When provisioning a spot fleet, getting the correct instance type can be a little bit overwhelming, log in to the console, look for instance capacity, etc That's why AWS provides us a really useful tool from the cli, ec2-instance-selector (https://github.com/aws/amazon-ec2-instance-selector) This makes our lives much easier. You just need to run the command passing resource criteria like vcpus, network performance, ram, etc. Be sure to have your AWS credentials loaded when yo

Hitting Github API REST with the Linux console

The very first step to hit any API REST is to read the documentation because every API is a world. While some of them are very intuitive, others require a lot of time on thinking about how to make every single call due to the resource's format required. The Github API REST has calls requiring a very specific format of input parameters. Might be in the header, in the URL's path, as URL GET parameters, or inside a JSON formatted body. But this is not all, because the answer wil

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