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CI/CD with GitHub Actions CI/CD with GitHub Actions – Project Overview One of the first things I did when taking over this project from another developer was review the deployment process and overall development workflow. The application already had a Dockerfile and Jenkins pipeline, but I wanted to improve the transparency of deployments and ... Read more
Read Article →If you’re asking what is included in an AWS migration project, you’re probably already past the early “should we move to cloud?” conversation. The harder question is scope. Your team may have a few ageing servers, a business-critical database, a web application nobody wants touched during trading hours, and a finance lead asking when savings ... Read more
Read Article →Your website hasn’t failed yet. It’s just started showing the warning signs. Pages take longer to load when traffic picks up. Admin tasks feel sluggish. Plugins time out during updates. A campaign goes live and the site becomes unreliable at the exact moment the business needs it most. On a shared hosting plan, that usually ... Read more
Read Article →A lot of teams ask the same question at the same point in their growth: should I use AWS Lightsail or EC2 for my business application? It usually comes up when a website, SaaS platform, internal tool, or customer portal has moved beyond basic hosting, but the business still wants cost certainty. The tension is ... Read more
Read Article →Simple lift-and-shift migrations to AWS often take around 1 to 3 months, while more complex application modernisation projects commonly run for 6 to 12 months or more. The right answer depends on a structured assessment of your applications, data, integrations, risk tolerance, and what “finished” means for the business. That’s usually the point where a ... Read more
Read Article →Your membership platform probably didn’t start as a strategic infrastructure project. It started as a practical way to accept registrations, manage renewals, gate content, and keep operations moving. Then growth arrived. More members, more integrations, more support overhead, more payment edge cases, more compliance questions, and more pressure on a stack that was originally “good ... Read more
Read Article →What should an AWS migration cost an Australian business once you include local engineering rates, compliance work, and the period of running two environments at once? There is no single price card for that. A small, low-complexity migration can be manageable. A regulated or integration-heavy programme can become a seven-figure investment once discovery, redesign, testing, ... Read more
Read Article →AWS rarely becomes expensive by accident. Costs rise when teams carry on-premise habits into a platform that charges for idle capacity, rewards automation, and exposes every shortcut in production. For SMEs, the first warning sign is usually commercial, not technical. Monthly spend climbs faster than revenue. Release cycles slow down because changes feel risky. Performance ... Read more
Read Article →AWS EC2 – are you spending too much? Amazon EC2 is one of the most powerful cloud computing platforms available today. It provides complete control over infrastructure, extensive flexibility and the ability to run almost any workload at virtually any scale. However, that flexibility comes with a downside. Many organisations spend significantly more than necessary ... Read more
Read Article →One of the first questions organisations ask when considering a move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) is: “How much is this going to cost?” Unfortunately, there is no single answer. An AWS migration can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars per month for a small business website to tens or hundreds of thousands of ... Read more
Read Article →When organisations begin their cloud journey on AWS, one of the first architectural decisions they face is where to host their applications. And that’s how they end up in a position where they are comparing AWS Lightsail vs EC2 vs ECS. AWS offers multiple compute services that can appear similar at first glance but are ... Read more
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