According to Frost & Sullivan, cyber security incidents can cost Australian businesses up to AU$29 billion a year. In Australia, in the last few months alone, we have seen high-profile cyber incidents at Toll Group, Bluescope Steel, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and a large state-based attack targeting all levels of government, political parties and […]
5 Ways DevOps Helps With Technical Debt
Introduction Many organisations uncover mountains of technical debt during their migration to the cloud. But what is technical debt and how can DevOps help us deal with it? In this post, we discuss five ways DevOps can turn your technical debt mountain into a molehill! What is Technical Debt? Technical debt is the accumulation of […]
Sourced: Ten Years On
Towards the end of 2019, as our leadership team huddled together in Toronto to refresh our organisation’s strategy for the upcoming year, it was impossible to imagine the challenges 2020 would bring. Yet here we all are, together but separate. As we work our way through the turmoil and uncertainty that COVID-19 has wrought on […]
The Down Under Program – An Intensive Learning Experience That Will Shape My Career For Years to Come
If you had told me a year ago that I, a 24 year-old Associate Consultant in Toronto, would be 15,558 km away from my family and friends, learning from some of the best cloud consultants in Australia, I would not have believed you. Yet here I am, six months and a couple of mild sunburns […]
What Does a Scrum Master do Once the Daily Stand-up is Done?
What does a Scrum Master do all day? Misconceptions about this role are rife. Some people think they’re accountable for everything, others think they’re accountable for nothing. In the worst cases, they’re considered the team dogsbody, in charge of booking meetings, making coffee and writing up notes. In fact, the Scrum Master plays the vital […]
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Aircraft Communications – Cloud Architecture for Aircom Flight Messenger
Introduction Commercial aircraft have several different communication capabilities so that the pilots and supporting staff have access to all the information they need to ensure they safely and effectively arrive at their destination. The most prevalent of these systems is the two-way air to ground data communication system called ACARS, or the Aircraft Communication and […]
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Deploying Pega Platform as Code on Microsoft Azure
Introduction Sourced was recently engaged by a global Financial Services Industry (“FSI”) client to perform a migration of their Pega Platform installations to Microsoft Azure. This initiative was in response to their existing on-premises environment experiencing severe capacity constraints, preventing customer-facing business units from bringing new products to market. Given the prevalence of Pega within […]
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Preventing Leaky Buckets – Enabling Private and Secure Access to S3 for Hybrid Clouds
Introduction Heavily regulated enterprises involved with sensitive commercial and customer data often treat public cloud services as low-trust and enforce inspection, filtering and data loss prevention on data transfer to services such as S3. This introduces complexity and performance overheads for development teams looking to build applications in AWS that rely on S3 for storage. […]
Self-Service Patching at Scale with AWS Systems Manager
Introduction With recent advancements and the on-going adoption of immutable infrastructure, it has never been easier to deploy and maintain highly scaled applications in the cloud. If your system requires an update, you can simply make your changes in code and re-deploy the resources. While the immutable approach can be adopted for applications with attributes […]
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Pulling Puppet’s Strings with AWS OpsWorks CM
Introduction We recently worked with one of our clients to provide a configuration management capability. This capability assists them with managing the more traditional operating system and application settings in their AWS EC2 environment that run “long lived” applications, or more specifically, those that had lower automation capabilities, or had characteristics that did not lend […]
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