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Turn off the Internet: AWS is no longer responding!

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:53:04 +0000

A few days ago, an incident impacting the AWS cloud provider had a significant impact on many companies and services directly affected by this instability.

I saw on social networks many reactions, often beside the subject (unfortunately) and I thought it could be useful to give you my analysis of the subject.

Rewind

Let’s start by recalling the incident a bit.

On Wednesday evening (French time), AWS encountered a growing number of errors in some of its services in the us-east-1 (North Virginia) region.

Traefik 2.3 + ECS + Fargate : Reverse proxy serverless in AWS

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:45:30 +0000

Traefik is a reverse proxy that we have already mentioned on this blog in the past. Very powerful coupled with containers, it allows a fine and light management of traffic.

A few days ago, Containous, the editor of Traefik, announced the release of Traefik 2.3.0-rc2. This new version brings some changes, including :

The addition of a new service: Traefik Pilot.
The ability to add plugins to Traefik
The addition of the ECS provider

I have already covered the first two points on this blog and I will focus here on the support of the ECS (Elastic Container Service) backend on AWS via a new Traefik provider.

Accelerate the test of your lambda functions with Docker

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Lambda is a very powerful AWS tool. Executing scripts in serverless mode drastically reduces the cost and complexity of managing a scalable infrastructure, however, testing its functions directly on Lambda can sometimes be frustrating as it requires round trips between the development station and the AWS environment.

There are testing features built into the AWS toolkit for the most popular editors (for Microsoft Visual Studio Code / PyCharm, for example), however, this restricts the possible editors and creates an adherence that is not particularly desirable.

GAFAM: Smile, you offer your data

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:33:00 +0000

GAFAMs, they are everywhere, sometimes clearly visible, like when you go on Google, sometimes much less so, like for example Amazon which owns the IMDB site.

What are the GAFAMs?

I make this little point for those who don’t know what the GAFAMs are. What is commonly called GAFAM are none other than :

Google
Apple
Facebook
Amazon
Microsoft

These five companies now largely dominate the Internet, and it is very difficult to really do without them.

At Christmas, don't give the keys to your house to hackers.

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:46:56 +0000

The Christmas period is a good time for hacks in companies, with the end-of-year holidays, there is indeed less staff, and therefore less reactivity. But it would be simplistic to see only this aspect.

Hell has a gift-wrapping

In recent years, connected objects of all kinds have become fashionable: speakers, watches, scales, vacuum cleaners, and this year’s fashionable object, connected cameras. All these gadgets can be very useful and have very nice features, but they are also the perfect access to your home for a pirate. Unfortunately, these devices are very often “light” in terms of embedded security. One might think that this is not too annoying, but from a compromised device, it may eventually be possible to infect an entire network to extract data for example.

Understanding the success of the "Serverless" model

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:30:30 +0000

Anyone who has ever done infrastructure on a cloud provider has already heard of the serverless model, behind this name is actually hiding many aspects. Let’s take a look…

The serverless model: logical evolution of containers?

For several years now, we have been talking about containers. A revolution over the last 5 years, containers (and orchestrators) have profoundly changed the approach to infrastructure, allowing applications composed of microservices to be deployed more and more simply and quickly. I won’t talk about this evolution here.