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.
Talk Tech To Me – User Centered Software Design
While users don’t think a whole lot about underlying software design, it’s an essential part of getting the customer experience right. Listen to our interview with Pete Fleming, Head of UX at Chariot Solutions.
GraphQL, the new Contender to REST
The Representative State Transfer (REST) protocol has been the king of remote access protocols for web applications for well over a decade. The general pattern: expose “nouns” (Customers, Activities, Employees, Tasks, Sasquatches) as URLs (/api/sasquatch/32) and access them via HTTP “verbs” such as “GET”, “POST” (create), “PUT” (update), or “DELETE” (umm, well…). The content type is specified via HTTP headers such as Content-Type (for data being received by the client) and Accepts (for a data request). The reason this works…
Amazon Workspaces – Desktops in the Cloud
I’ve been experimenting with Workspaces for a week now, and have configured an instance for aws re:Invent for those times I want to hack. Coupled with an iPad Air, a bluetooth mouse, and the keyboard case, I have desktop I can pull up anywhere.
re:Invent Recap
Chariot’s AWS Practice Lead, Keith Gregory, recaps his experience at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in 2019.
IoT on AWS, a recap
If you weren’t able to attend our IoT on AWS one-day conference, here’s a recap.