Hi CDK folks For a startup I am building a security platform. The rough process for using the platform is something like this. The customer answers a few questions and then gets a security evaluation. For the prototype I decided to use AWS…

I have been working for a client with very exciting AWS CDK tasks. The customer is heavily into the Atlassian ecosystem. BitBucket is used to host the code. Now the customer wants to move more into the DevOps space and manage their AWS deployments…

Prowler Video (Click me :D) Hi Folks! Developing in AWS is fun and the possibilities to build cool stuff seem endless. But are these cool things secure and do they follow AWS's best practices? With Prowler AMI you can check just that with far over…

Hi Folks! Toni De La Fluente has developed the super cool AWS Security Tool Prowler. Prowler is a cli tool for performing and consulting AWS Security Assessment, Auditing, Hardening and Incident Response. With more than 180 checks, Prowler provides…

Hi Folks! My last post was about how to make a wordpress deployment more DevOps friendly using Docker and some cool scripts. Today I want to talk about another exciting task. The customer wants new wordpress posts to be created automatically using…

Hi guys! For my newest customer I built a great AWS backend with AWS AppSync and many other great AWS services. But now I'm faced with the exciting task of making the AppSync or GraphQL API callable in a Wordpress frontend. I have heard a lot about…

Hi Folks! I am currently working on an exciting project where it should be possible to create Ec2 instances flexibly via an API. These instances should then be made available to the customer for training purposes. The instances should be customized…

Hi CDK Fans! With Custom Constructs it is possible to implement certain features as Level 2 AWS CDK Constructs. In fact, many of the AWS CDK Constructs already in use are already Level 2 Constructs. I have already built some custom constructs. There…

Hi. In my previous blog posts I showed how to generate analytics from DynamoDB table using AWS QuickSight. Unfortunately, QuickSight is only minimally supported by Cloudformation and QuickSight's DataSource and DataSet are only on the roadmap so far…

Hi. In my last blogpost, I covered exciting work with AWS Athena and AWS QuickSight. If you want to do analytics from small AWS DynamoDB tables, everything should work smoothly. By small I mean a relatively small number of columns in the table. It…

Hi. AWS DynamoDB is an extremely performant and scalable NoSQL database. Due to the lack of a schema, data, called items in DynamoDb, can be extremely flexible. This also allows a kind of evolutionary development of the items by simply creating new…

Hi. For a long time I've been dreaming of building a platform with a great DevOps experience. I want to have cool stuff in it like: Infrastructure as Code (IAC) CI / CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) A staging e.g. dev, qa, prod…

Hi. Our development team does an exciting experiment. We work in Scrum and organize ourselves mainly with GitHub. That works really great1. In this article I describe how we use GitHub for that. Even though I have experience with Scrum for about…

Hi Projen folks. Projen is becoming popular. I've been using it myself for about half a year now and I'm still totally hooked. Recently I even managed to build a Docker Image Release Cycle to Docker Hub with it. My Docker InfluxDB Repo now…

Before it begins. Affiliates regarding the IOT devices are in the post Hi. A few weeks ago I presented my new IOT deployment here. It consists of a Raspberry 4 DE US UK, Zigbee Türsensor DE UK and the Zigbee Empfäger DE UK. The software that runs on…

Before it starts! The Trading212 link is an affiliate where you and I get each a share for free. Hi, I started with stocks in November 2020 and since them I am an active user of the trading app Trading212. The main reason is that I do not see a bank…

Hi Raspberry Friends. Note: I have used commission links in this article and marked them with "*". Since recently I can call myself owner of a Raspberry. On Cyber Monday I bought a *Raspberry 4 with 4 GB. I have had previous experiences with Home IOT…