Referring to the infrastructure secrets, not your personal ones :) — Introduction A security incident or breach can cause major problems to a company, for example, it can result in system failures and therefore massive recovery and operational costs. …

Weigh your pros and cons when deciding! — Back in the day Software deployment is the process of remotely installing software on multiple or all the computers within a network simultaneously, from a central location. In the past, the process was very manual and a user had to isolate and locate the software package (artefact) and transfer it to the required server…

Financial Operations (FinOps) is a culture that will help you creating cost awareness in your organisation! — Introduction Companies are moving their computing capacity to the cloud in order to benefit from the fact that the systems are managed (outsourced) by a 3rd party e.g. AWS, Azure, Google cloud etc. Efficient architecture is always the focus, however, due to a rush or uninformed decisions, various companies have been…

Critical thinking software professionals should adapt like chameleons! — I am a member of the greekdigitalcommunity.com, a greek speaking digital community, where software engineering, agile and designing professionals discuss everything about their ongoing work and share their thoughts about future concerns. A member asked the following question (translated from Greek): Question Good afternoon! I have a question and I would…

This talk was delivered during the internal Reply conference, Xchange 2021. In this article, we are going to start with some theoretical concepts and then, in another article, we will explain in a more practical way by showing the results of our demo during the conference. In the previous article…

This talk was delivered as part of the internal Reply conference, Xchange 2021. In this article (1/2) we are going to start with some theoretical concepts and then, in another article, we will explain in a more practical way by showing the results of our demo during the conference. We…

A quick glimpse at the two most popular open-source IaC tools — Infrastructure as Code (IaC) For many years, network and hardware engineers struggled to install and configure servers and other networking devices. In the past decade, following the big surge of the cloud, these activities were deprecated due to the move to the cloud. Photo by Ian Battaglia on Unsplash Nowadays, it’s also become a…