Where the MySQL Event Scheduler mechanism works for both the MySQL and Aurora Cluster RDS services. It seemed not to work after migrating our applications to Aurora Serverless clusters. The…
Although AWS recently published their experimental public roadmap for AWS Container Services. The company can still surprise us during a global pandemic by suddenly announcing the launch of the new…
During a project we are migrating a lot of MySQL RDS instances to Aurora Serverless basically to lower runtime and operational cost (OPEX). In the traditional Aurora / MySQL RDS…
In the IT industry, among others, you’re often only as good as your last success. As Rogers (2016) mentions: “In a world of rapidly changing technology and customer needs, it…
Now that the Social Isolation is in full effect, I find myself with some extra time on my hands. Instead of watching Netflix/Disney+/Prime I decided to migrate my Home Automation…
Let’s take a small break from our Docker/Kubernetes series in which we try to optimize our beer-brewing and -selling throughput and focus a bit more on beer-brewing and -sales measurement….
The biggest advantage of functions is there pay-per-use model. But this also means that the underneath hardware will scale down to zero when not used. When this happens and a…
In our AWS cloud native application development projects we often use native-cloud technology like AWS Lambda and AWS ECS Fargate to accelerate deployment and minimize costs. The power of both…
When using AWS CodeCommit (and I think specifically a MacBook / OS X) you might get the error: fatal: repository ‘https://git-codecommit.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/demo/’ not found Make sure you have a current version…
In our last couple of beer blogs we stuck to a plain Docker setup. That already got our business a lot more professional and it enabled us to ship out…
During the development of a cloud native application running on Kubernetes we we’re asked to perform implement a security mechanism that pro-actively scans the complete cloud native infrastructure for security…
One of my gripes with the technological developments over the past couple of years is that the names that have been bestowed upon them have not been great. Microservices seem…
It is one of those current buzzwords, next to agile, cloud and containers: microservices. Hyped by Gartner and “mister Service Oriented Architecture” Thomas Erl, this new way of creating business…
As you may know the Ghost application is a light-weight opensource Content Management System (CMS) which is ideal for blogs and magazine websites. Just like https://terra10.nl and because it allows…
Just like composing a good craft beer requires a good mix of complementing types of hops, malts, fruits, spices and herbs – and of course the craftsmanship of a good…
AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run BWCE containers without having to manage servers or clusters. A quick howto on deploying BWCE applications…
Being a good consultant, I always try to avoid repetitive, manual work. What helps me not to just try, but also to succeed, are the many very useful tools out…
This post is part 3 of a series about GraalVM. In the previous post, I explained how you can create a simple REST API using GraalVM and native images. The…
This port is part of the GraalVM series I’m writing. In the previous post, which can be found HERE, I talked about what GraalVM is and gave a basic example…
This post is part 3 of a series about GraalVM. In the previous post, I explained how you can create a simple REST API using GraalVM and native images. The…