Like many infrastructure engineers I have spent the last 20yrs living on a knife edge, praying that nothing breaks over the peak season. With the majority of sales online, any downtime is going to be expensive and despite all the planning that goes into that period you...

Since leaving a full time operational role I’ve found myself involved in a cloud based migration that has seen me working alongside a great team of developers much more closely than I ever had the time for in my previous position.

It’s true historically developers and o...

This week has got me back onto AWS after spending the last few weeks in Azure for the certifications.  The overall project Im working on is to build an AWS environment to automate transformation of data from csv's and load into a nosql database.  the last few days thou...

For a few years now Id spent the majority of my professional experience working within the AWS cloud environment but an MS SQL project a couple of years back had made me consider the Azure platform. Now this isn't an article about which one is better than the other, I...

So after 18yrs working for my current employer Ive decided its time to try something a little different  and give life ago on my own.  Ive worked on some great infrastructure projects within that time , helping the company develop and grow and for the last few years be...