Introduction Secrets management in public cloud environments continues to be a challenge for many organisations as they embrace the power of programmable infrastructure and the consumption of API-based services. All too often reputable companies will feature in the news, having fallen victim to security breaches or costly cloud resource provisioning through the accidental disclosure of […]
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Best Practices for Implementing DevOps in Very Large Enterprises Earlier this year at DevOps Days Toronto and Vancouver, we gave a presentation outlining several tips and techniques for implementing DevOps within very large enterprises. We used a mixture of humour and memes to convey some of the difficulties when moving from a traditional ITIL-style approach […]
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A leader in the Canadian electronic medical and health records industry, TELUS Health decided to modernise the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows of its suite of applications by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to automatically provision test environments and dynamically deploy components on the cloud. With the ability to deploy test environments on-demand, […]
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Overview The past twenty-five years has seen a rapid decrease in the cost of genetic sequencing, from $2.7 billion dollars for the human genome project (completed 2003), to roughly $1000 dollars today. This decrease in cost has led to the development of the personal genomics testing via companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, who provide these […]
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On a recent client engagement I had the opportunity to develop Datadog dashboards to monitor a production Microsoft Active Directory deployment and expose vital metrics relating to service health and capacity. Building on basic monitoring of the core infrastructure running these AD/DNS instances, we dived deeper to collect and present service-specific metrics, service statuses and […]
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About Aussie With 25 years of collective experience and over 1000 mortgage brokers across Australia, Aussie Home Loans (hereby referred to as Aussie) has established itself as a leader in the financial services industry with multiple awards, a testament to their ability to secure the best deal for their customers looking for home loans. Aussie […]
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Cloud Governance & Controls Assessment A leading multinational financial services provider and Canada’s most international bank adopted public cloud as part of their “digital bank” initiative to deliver greater customer engagement and drive material transactions through digital channels. Challenge The customer had already established and operationalised their cloud platform and control framework. They requested a […]
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Serverless Data Pipeline to Support Content Recommendations Engine ABC was looking to improve its end user experience by building an event management framework that allows it to make customised content recommendations based on the usage patterns of the websites and applications’ visitors. Challenge ABC wanted to target an increased market penetration by enabling an events […]
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Large Scale Transformation of I.T. Service Delivery Qantas Airways is the flag carrier of Australia and is Australia’s largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations. It is the third oldest airline in the world, having been founded in November 1920; it began international passenger flights in May 1935. Challenge Inflexible infrastructure unable […]
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Scaleable, Standardized and Repeatable Pipeline for AWS Australia’s largest investment bank embarked on a multi year modernisation program including a data centre exit strategy in search for higher degrees of agility and system availability within their IT environment. Challenge Complex current state (2,500 applications and 30 DC’s globally) High failure rate of application releases due […]
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