Frequent database password changes are a best practice, because they reduce the “blast radius” if compromised. However, restarting your applications in order to pick up the latest password can be onerous in a large deployment. This post describes how to use AWSLabs database driver that retrieves the current password from Secrets Manager whenever your application opens a connection to the database.
Another Charioteer rolls their own security camera system. This time in the cloud, with the shiny new AWS CDK.
Keith Gregory talks to Andrew Ganim, one of Chariot’s experienced software consultants, about his recent project: building a data pipeline for a multinational company.
Abstract: “So, everyone’s talking about Serverless… and serverless, and server-less. Let’s talk about why Ken thinks Serverless = lower developer productivity and why containers still rule the day. Note: the statements and thoughts of Ken Rimple do not reflect the views of Chariot Solutions, AWS, or even the elves who wrote LISP.” Speaker Bio: Ken … Read More
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Ken and Becca riff on some recent dev/tech news: Grant Imahara, of Mythbuster fame, and his passing (RIP), tech solutions for beauty companies impacted by Coronavirus, SQL tricks, podcasts we’re really into, and a short rant from Ken on serverless.
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Our special guest, Keith Gregory, AWS Practice Lead here at Chariot, joins us to talk about Elastic Search and implementing it on AWS.
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Ken discusses some of the virtual tooling he’s used or come across in developing software, including web IDEs, VMs, Docker, and more.
AWS gives you two ways to store application configuration: Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store. Both can store arbitrary configuration data. Both use IAM (Identity and Access Management) policies to control access. Both can encrypt the data. So which should you pick?
Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Machine learning and IoT have become commonplace words in the enterprise workplace. Even in our homes we have ML-enabled IoT devices (we’re looking at you, Amazon Alexa). But what does it look like to combine ML and … Read More
Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract One of the chief benefits of cloud computing is the ability to experiment: to spin up infrastructure for hours or days and then shut it down again. Giving your developers the ability to manage their own environments … Read More
