BenHAdventures in Pro Recertification Part 1I need to recertify my AWS Pro Certification sometime this year (the C19 situation has royally messed up well everything, and believe me…Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021
BenHYour call is important to us…I’ve done “stuff” with Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) for years, mostly deep in the guts of the JVM the actual software was running…Feb 20, 2021Feb 20, 2021
BenHKMS, encryption and secrets in “The Cloud”OK, its been a while since I had a proper rant, I mean there is a global pandemic going on and things are so bad someone entrusted me with…Dec 22, 2020Dec 22, 2020
BenHArtificial Intelligence — Why its notLast week, one of the inmates of Shrivenham Polytechnic (OK technically the UK Defence Academy — I’m a smartarse), Major Chris H released…Jun 8, 2020Jun 8, 2020
BenHA Flexible Compute EnvironmentSo something a little more sensible — well reduced snarkMay 1, 2020May 1, 2020
BenHLogging in Cloud EnvironmentsLogs provide a real time window into the running application in the form of a stream of aggregated time ordered information, traditionally…Apr 16, 2020Apr 16, 2020
BenHCloud And Enterprise IT StrategyOr Why Virtual Machines are going nowhere — and docker and k8s are not your savioursFeb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020
BenH‘Hacking’ Amazon Managed ServicesAmazon Managed Services (AMS) are an odd function of Amazon, for a considerable (40+%) uplift in your monthly bill you should have an…Feb 10, 2020Feb 10, 2020
BenHIAM, S3 and Principle of Least Privilege Part Two — RemediationSo you’ve now have legions of business users and people with access to the CloudWatch Logs console suffering as they attempt every…Jan 4, 2020Jan 4, 2020
BenHIAM, S3 and The Principle of Least Privilege — Part One: PreventionNow increasingly worryingly long ago, I was working on a 3-tier traditional webapp system, where the database (belonging to a certain…Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019