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…3 min read·Apr 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…6 min read·Feb 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…10 min read·Dec 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…9 min read·Jun 8, 2020----
BenHA Flexible Compute EnvironmentSo something a little more sensible — well reduced snark5 min read·May 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…7 min read·Apr 16, 2020----
BenHCloud And Enterprise IT StrategyOr Why Virtual Machines are going nowhere — and docker and k8s are not your saviours6 min read·Feb 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…2 min read·Feb 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…6 min read·Jan 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…4 min read·Oct 30, 2019----