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Instrumenting autoscaling EC2 instances in Prometheus

Prometheus is time series database use for metrics and alerting. Coupled with Grafana it’s my go-to solution for instrumenting metrics for …

AWS Automation Wizardry

In one of my previous posts I demonstrated the use of AWS Secrets Manager for securely keeping and maintaining the state of a Laravel application .env …

Lessons learned from a DDoS attack

One of our brands recently suffered a DDoS attack - thankfully not a sustained one, but enough to impact website availability and rethink our …

Using AWS Secrets Manager for .env files

Managing environment files for highly-available cloud apps can be tricky. The easiest option, of course, is to embed these environment files into your …