Tips for Teleworkers and Online Meetings
At Chariot, we’ve worked remotely for years. Here are some tips for new teleworkers (as well as some ideas for experienced ones as well).
How To Promote Design Culture
Design in business is awesome and often misunderstood There are countless benefits of investing in design for digital products, from solving the right problems to increasing customer spending. Companies like Apple have proven design’s importance to success and market value, but that’s not enough for many companies. Unlike sales or marketing, seeing direct numbers tied to investing in design can be difficult. A lot of companies have never had an established design practice, so they don’t know what they’re missing….
Serverless or Bust Part 2 – Handling Events and Securing Lambdas
How to send information to Lambdas by passing parameters and path-based variables to functions, and locking down functions from unauthorized access.
Serverless or bust part 1 – setting up a Lambda in Serverless
We’ll take a look at a cloud-based application platform, Serverless, and what it takes to get a simple function hosted on Amazon Web Services (aws), including configuring security with Amazon Cognito, and a front-end client with Angular.
CloudFormation Tips and Tricks
I’ve noticed that many of Chariot’s clients — from 4-person startups to 40,000-person multinationals — use CloudFormation for their infrastructure-as-code. For them and others, here are some tips that I’ve learned while developing CloudFormation templates over the past five years.
Discussion on the Future of Tech in 2020 and Beyond by the Chariot Solutions Team
This panel is a look into what tools and tech our talented team is thinking about in 2020 and beyond.
Delving into CloudTrail events
CloudTrail provides you with an audit log of every successful API call made in your AWS account. This post focuses on management events in CloudTrail, and techniques for exploring and analyzing those events using a search engine such as Elasticsearch with Kibana.
Using AWS CostExplorer to find forgotten services
In this post I’ll give an introduction to Budgets, and walk through using Cost Explorer to find a forgotten Sagemaker notebook.
Automating Let’s Encrypt Certificate Renewal using DNS Challenge Type
In the following examples, I’ll show how to renew certs with domains hosted on AWS/Route53 and GoDaddy. I run certbot with scripts within a docker container (to simplify automation), however you can use CLI.
Building Developer Sandboxes on AWS
The ability to experiment is one of the unsung benefits of cloud computing. It was, in fact what drew me to AWS in 2008. At Chariot, we have multiple sandbox environments, some for specific projects and some for general play, and recommend that our clients do the same. However, sandboxes need some controls, to ensure that they don’t become a source of runaway costs.