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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 →You’ve probably seen the brief already. “We need a cloud strategy.” Or worse, “Can you move this to AWS or Azure by the end of the quarter?” That’s usually the moment a sensible technology project starts drifting into a risky one. The board wants modernisation. Operations wants reliability. Finance wants cost control. Internal IT is ... Read more
Read Article →Your team knows the pattern. A core application slows down at the worst time. Reporting depends on brittle exports. A server upgrade turns into a capital request nobody wants to approve. Security reviews get harder because nobody is fully confident about what talks to what, where data sits, or how quickly a failed component can ... 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 →Your team is probably already feeling the pressure. Servers are getting harder to maintain, monthly hosting costs are less predictable than they should be, developers are spending too much time on infrastructure work, and every proposed change carries operational risk. At that point, “move to the cloud” sounds simple until someone has to price it, ... 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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