Devops Blog
Is Network Engineering Dead?
Is network engineering dead? The answer is: It’s complicated. Like everything else in technology, network engineering is changing rapidly and the role of human engineers is evolving. In the age of cloud computing, managed services, and especially artificial intelligence, many devops engineers and SREs thought network engineering would quickly be a relic of the past. Like the demise of...
AWS Cloud Cost Optimization: Strategies & Best Practices
Cloud cost optimization is a key element in the long-term success of any organization using AWS. For many startups and early-stage companies, the stakes are even higher: containing cloud costs is a critical survival factor. While it isn’t that difficult to shut down some unused EC2 instances or to reduce the size of a few resources, leveraging cloud native efficiencies for major financial...
The 10-Step Web Application & Cloud Security Checklist
If you run a SaaS business or mission critical software, the security of your web platform is crucial to your success. You may not, however, know the questions to ask your technical staff or outsourced providers. Knowing the answers to these questions can highlight vulnerabilities you need to address before they become a nightmare scenario. This checklist and associated recommendations are not...
AWS for Startups (and everyone else): Optimization Factors
Startups face unique challenges from financing to user engagement to hiring and more. One of the most important but often underestimated elements is cloud infrastructure as a critical component for success. I've worked with companies in every stage of growth on their AWS environment and it's typically startups or organizations new to the cloud that can benefit the most from strong devops...
A Quick Guide To Securing Your Digital Life
If you've heard all the latest news about stolen passwords and identity theft, you probably want to feel more secure, but you don't know where to start. This post is intended to give you a quick step-by-step guide to securing and backing up your valuable data. While this is not a comprehensive tutorial, I have added explanations to help clarify some of the suggestions. I'll link to tutorials...
Dave Stern, President
My company Stern Devops Group provides devops, cloud architecture, automation and security consulting primarily in AWS. Our focus is scaling platforms for massive growth, increasing developer productivity and driving infrastructure costs down.