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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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. […]
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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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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Introduction Recently we have been fortunate to work with one of our enterprise clients on the development and launch of a mission critical system running on AWS. The system carries the highest criticality rating for the enterprise, requiring complete deployment automation using their existing AWS deployment pipeline, whilst maintaining the highest levels of availability and […]
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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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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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