TOGAF 9: ADM Phase H – Architecture Change Management

This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. Objectives Going thru all ADM phases, we created four architectures, after everything planned finally it is now implemented. Time to drink champagne? This description brings to my mind waterfall approach from software development. Is this so? The true is it will be whatever you want. …

AWS User Group Krakow

We invite you to the next meeting of the AWS User Group in Krakow. This time we will focus on the subject of building, managing and monitoring AWS infrastructure, and we will move into the Serverless world!Remember to fill in the form and check your email regularly, as the number of places is limited. The …

Automated Amazon EBS Snapshots

EBS snapshots is a powerful tool that can be used as a base for your backups. Snapshots are stored on S3 which provides 99.999999999% of durability. Wort to remember is that if an EC2 instance is up and running during snapshot creation, there may be applications working with data in memory or pending I/O operations …

Ansible and AWS cross-account access

To access AWS resources in another account you can create dedicated IAM user or use IAM roles. If you decide to create user, you need to generate username and password for AWS Console or access keys for API. Baking this keys in your code is almost always a bad idea. By setting up roles for …

TOGAF 9: ADM Phase G – Implementation Governance

This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. Objectives After creating architectures, choosing solutions and planning everything, assigned teams are finalny building. In Phase G we need to make sure, that what is built is actually compliant with our architecture. It might seem that this phase is the longest and most difficult of …

My podcasts list

I use Podcast Addict application on my mobile phone as my podcast catcher. Technology podcasts: Packet Pushers – series of different podcasts related to datacenter, networking and cloud. Definitely my favourite podcast. A lot of valuable content and great guests. I’m listing to this podcast for years now, almost since the begging and I highly …

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam – materials

Materials Solutions Architect Associate exam materials. Exam blueprint. A Cloud Guru course. Pluralsight course. Linux academy course – highly recommended. It contains a lot of useful labs! Jayendra’s Blog. AWS Well-Architected Framework. Whitepapers Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS Using Amazon Web Services for Disaster Recovery Encrypting Data at Rest AWS Security Best Practices Cost Management in …