An overview of how to implement Network Load Balancing on Google Cloud Platform, using Deployment Manager infrastructure-as-code.

A look at some tools and tricks for making AWS CloudFormation development faster, more efficient, and more fun.

This article describes how to create a complete Magnolia environment that contains an Author environment and two Public environments which are served via a HAProxy load balancer.

In this article we dive into the details of deploying Java WAR files using the various alternative methods available.

Preemptible Instances on GCP differ from Spot Instances on AWS in that there is no concept of a “spot price” or bidding for the resources. This approach is much simpler than the Spot Instances concept, and can also be cheaper in certain scenarios, but comes with additional considerations which we cover in this article.

A standard pattern for software environment naming and usage, to provide clarity and consistency when planning software development infrastructure.

This article provides an overview of how to implement Magnolia CMS on an auto-scaling cloud platform.

Amazon's S3 service suffered a significant outage on 28th February 2017. We analyse the factors behind the outage and the learnings that apply in general.

In this post we explain in detail how you can retrieve tag values from inside an EC2 instance, allowing metadata based control of internal instance configuration.

In this article we compare how AWS and Google Cloud Platform implement metadata and start-up and shutdown events for compute instances.