In the wake of Google's Next '17 event and the AWS San Francisco Summit 2017, I wanted to continue the AWS vs GCP comparison series. In this part though, I wanted to focus on each public cloud [...]
One of the most interesting differences between GCP and AWS is how each vendor recommends you isolate the blast radius of functional teams. AWS will tell you that in all likelihood, you will need at [...]
In the wake of Google's Next '17 event, and a slew of recent Reserved Instance changes by Amazon Web Services (AWS), it seemed appropriate to compare to see if anything in the public cloud VM [...]
Amazon recently announced some new features around tagging permissions that make tags considerably more useful. Although this just came out, I already see a few areas where we can simplify automation scripts. More importantly, since we [...]
Many of our customers are running workloads that are subject to HIPAA regulations. Running these on AWS is definitely doable, but there are some catches. Foghorn has made it super easy for our customers to [...]
As we approach the Crossfit games once again, I thought I'd share some detail on how Foghorn helped Crossfit update their DevOps processes for the 2016 games. Crossfit has been growing rapidly, and had [...]
Cloud Neutral DevOps HashiCorp makes some of our favorite DevOps tools. Along with being feature rich, stable, and well designed, they are cloud neutral. This allows DevOps teams to become experts with a single tool [...]
After designing, building and managing hundreds of environments, sometimes we get a little too deep in the weeds with our blogs. So I thought I'd share this article, which gives a high level perspective on how [...]
With the recent AWS announcement, AWS customers can now leverage spot instances to crunch their HIPAA big data workloads. This can help decrease the compute costs of these jobs by up to 90%, making EC2 a [...]
24x7 environments are handy, but are they required for Dev and Test? I'm going to assume your development team is not leveraging development environments 24 hours a day 7 days a week. That is to [...]
