In the brave new world of Cloud technology, corporate users are clamoring to get access to the cloud. Whether it is developers testing out new applications, seasoned DBAs building out databases to review performance, or [...]
Foghorn Achieves Amazon Web Service’s Highest Partner Status 10 years ago we had a vision. Customer by customer we built a business that was focused on delivering the best outcomes for our clients moving to [...]
In discussions of cloud computing and data center migrations, the question of “sticker shock” sometimes comes up. Sticker shock is real, but as we’ll show in this series of blog posts, it’s due to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At Foghorn, we've been writing modular DevOps code for many years. Over time, we have developed a set of modules that represent about 80% of our customers needs, and leveraged those modules to accelerate the [...]
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 [...]
