Dependencies got you down? Find them! Many of us end up with lots of dependencies in our configuration management code. Whether it's community cookbooks or package management, there are plenty of reasons to leverage outside [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes their opinions of best practice architectures, and has historically performed Well Architected Reviews for key customers. Recently, Amazon has enlisted a small group of partners to join them in performing [...]
If you are managing any Protected Health Information (PHI), you need to be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA is a law that contains guidelines and responsibilities but is not audited by an external provider. Many companies are [...]
Terraform as a Foundation Terraform is really great. As someone who has spent the better part of the past decade codifying cloud infrastructure, there is an inexorable groan from my vicinity when someone insists we [...]
According to Ponemon Institute the average cost of a data breach in 2017 for an organization was $141 per stolen record, and $3.62M per occurrence. The financial costs are just a portion of the actual [...]
I went to Las Vegas last month, and didn't gamble once! Weird, right? But AWS re:Invent 2017 was so full of material that it doesn't leave much free time for the usual Vegas experience, after [...]
As alluded to in a previous blog post, We Saw. We Hacked. We Conquered. this is the follow up with the architectural details. Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse with the goal of [...]
One of our customers, Ellie Mae, asked us to join them in the Not-Profit Hackathon at AWS re:Invent 2017, and we jumped at the chance. With Foghorn making up 1/2 the team, we were excited [...]
In case you aren't familiar with the offering, VPC-in-a-Box is Foghorn's best practice VPC design for Amazon Web Services; customized for client workloads, and delivered as re-usable, versionable code. We've been delivering and iterating this [...]
As the industry moves toward containers as a deployment artifact, we need to modify our deployment pipelines. One of our clients, Blast Motion, is a great example of how this can be accomplished. Prior to [...]
