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Field notes from the cloud.
Case studies, deep dives, and engineering practice from the Ordinary Experts team.
Evolution of a S3 Bucket in CloudFormation
In this blog, we'll walk through setting up a S3 bucket with CloudFormation. We'll start with a simple resource and work up to a more real-life example with support for versioning, encryption, and preventing any objects from becoming public.
Static S3 Website with CICD - Walkthrough
We have developed a Terraform module for AWS which provisions a static website that: is serverless, enforces SSL, encrypts data at rest and in transit, is globally distributed, supports restricting access to website by IP, sets up nice DNS entries, deploys new changes when commits are pushed to a CodeCommit branch, clears the CloudFront cache after deployments, sends notifications on successful and failed deploys, supports site generation frameworks like Hugo or Jekyll, supports URLs of subdirectories that do not have index.html specified, supports custom error pages, and supports debug mode. Check it out!
Case Study: Complete Recycling
The Complete Recycling Customer Portal is a business application that allows Complete Recycling’s customers to submit requests for service, then connects those requests to service providers. The Complete Recycling Customer Portal manages the lifecycle of the customer’s service requests, from scheduling to fulfillment and invoicing. The Complete Recycling Customer Portal also integrates with Complete Recycling’s accounting solution to sync invoices and other accounting transactions.
Welcome Leslie Brunsen!
Leslie Brunsen joins as a Project Manager.
Welcome Julian Rosenthal!
Julian Rosenthal joins as a Software Engineer.
Better CodePipeline S3 Source Metadata
By setting the 'codepipeline-artifact-revision-summary' metadata key when uploading a build artifact to S3, you can get nicer source metadata information from AWS CodePipeline.
Git Flow, Semantic Versioning, and CHANGELOG.md, oh my!
In this post, we discuss Git Flow, Semantic Versioning, and Keep a changelog, and then provide a complete walk-through of how we would apply them to a typical software development project.
Using AWS Vault to authenticate to AWS CodeCommit
If you already use AWS Vault, you can use it to more securely and easily clone AWS CodeCommit repositories.
Ordinary Experts achieves AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
Today we have been recognized as an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, the third of four tiers in the AWS Partner Program!
Welcome Helen Kim!
Helen Kim joins as a Software Engineer.