Congratulations to Matthew Kohn, Foghorn’s Boston based Director of Engineering for achieving AWS Ambassador status. Matthew has always risen to the top of the class with...
The DynamoDB Design Dilemma
For a recent project, our customer wanted to build a website to show the differences between two widgets and their corresponding data sets. We knew the amount of traffic...
Highlights from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020
As we have come to expect from their conventions this past week’s KubeCon has been unique. In previous years there has been snow in Austin, rain in San Diego, this year is...
Building a Better Cloud Center of Excellence
By leveraging the vast capabilities of today’s cloud, an exciting new era of scalability, agility, and redundancy has emerged for future forward enterprises. The journey to...
Using Agile Methodology for Cloud DevOps Projects
Your 2020 Guide to Minimum Viable Product Success Throughout my career, I’ve observed countless challenges with project management stemming from misaligned expectations,...
Informed Terraform
At Foghorn, we love Terraform. And we write a lot of Terraform. We also code-review terraform as a matter of course, and we work with a lot of customers who use and author...
You’re Doing It Wrong: The Path to Building Better Terraform Modules
This is the first post in a series on Terraform modules. You’re doing it wrong; I know because I’ve built a lot of crap Terraform. I’m a connoisseur of terrible Terraform....
Monitoring, Pruning, RightSizing and Reporting on Cloud Resources
Welcome back, this is part two in our series on controlling and optimizing costs in the cloud. If you are new, here is the first part of the series, Cost Control Analysis...
Foghorn Achieves AWS SDP for EC2 for Windows
I’m happy to share with you that as of June 19th, Foghorn has been accepted into the AWS Service Delivery Program (SDP) for EC2 for Microsoft Windows. In order to achieve...
Alert – AWS Breaking Change – S3 SigV2 Deprecation
As of June 25, 2020, SigV2 will no longer be supported for all new S3 buckets created. Here is the original Jeff Barr post:...
