Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on the development of content for the Resources and Design Principles chapters in the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past week I've been working on the following chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Resources …

Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on development of the Platform chapters of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past three weeks I've been working on the following platform related chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Platform - Availability
• Platform - Design …

Summary: In this article, I provide a update on development of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past few weeks, I've been busy developing and recording content for O'Reilly Media as part of the up and coming series, "Architecting for the AWS Platform …

Summary: In this article we look at why the ability to manage IAM policies as first class objects is important and provide some example code to illustrate resource duplication that may lead to increased and unnecessary risk.

A couple of weeks back, AWS announced Managed Policies for AWS Identity & Access …

Summary: In this article we look at how Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) can be used to orchestrate the cross region deployment of RDS resources.

Recently, I have been investigating highly available (multi-AZ) cross-region configurations of RDS. The RDS API makes the task quite simple. It’s little more than:

master_db …

In this article I introduce a case study I wrote with John Painter of Sourced Group. The case study presents a blueprint for a Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) for Enterprise organisations and will feature in the book, "DevOps, A Software Architect's Perspective", scheduled for release in the first half of next year.

Summary: In part one of Experimenting with Hadoop MapReduce on the AWS Platform, we developed an Amazon VPC environment suitable as the foundation to deploy Hadoop MapReduce. In part two, we present an Amazon CloudFormation template that can be used to automate the creation of the aforementioned environment. We also …

Summary: In this article, we present a solution architecture suitable as a foundation for a Hadoop MapReduce pilot on the AWS platform. We start by considering under what circumstances an organisation may want to manage their own Hadoop MapReduce platform on EC2 instead of simply using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce …

Data provenance, or data lineage as it is otherwise known, refers to the process of recording the origin and transform history of data throughout its lifetime. In this short article, we take a look at data lineage from the perspective of data analytics, specifically with a focus on large [Big …

Last week, Google announced significant price reductions for their cloud storage service, Google Drive. This is of course great news for consumers; you can now store 1TB of data for $9.99 per month. This is approximately the same cost of storing 1TB of data on Amazon Glacier. While both …