One of the most strategic advantages AWS offers is streamlined application development. Seamlessly integrated dev, test and production environments reduce the amount of code needed for new applications while dramatically shortening time to market.
Trek10 is an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. With an AWS focused DevOps team and targeted methodologies, we migrate, implement, and manage our clients' application environments, enabling them to accelerate their development cycles and further differentiate themselves through the software they deploy.
January 08, 2019
If you are looking at containers, you may be weighing the options of Fargate vs other container management options on AWS like ECS, EKS, or a DIY cluster. In this post we’ll try to provide some context to that pricing comparison.
January 02, 2019
If you design it properly, a single DynamoDB table can handle the access patterns of a legitimate multi-table relational database without breaking a sweat. In this post, we will through some DynamoDB single-table design considerations in step-by-step detail.
December 20, 2018
IAM is the last line of defense between compromised AWS credentials and your critical infrastructure. Following the principle of least privilege is critical. In this post, we’ll talk about a way to automatically make use of the new IAM Access Advisor to keep track of IAM permissions of users and roles in your account.
December 03, 2018
While many announcements were featured in keynotes and got lots of media attention, some of the most game-changing feature upgrades slipped out quietly in the days leading up to the big event. But never fear: Trek10 keeps a close eye on every AWS announcement.
November 26, 2018
In this session we’ll look at the practices and tools necessary to automate deployments of serverless applications and build effective continuous delivery pipelines that take full advantage of a cloud-native architecture built on AWS.
November 16, 2018
If you are trying to figure out how to build new cutting edge architectures in AWS but are reliant on data in a legacy database, this is for you.
November 15, 2018
Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes to run an AWS Lambda function. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.
November 02, 2018
In this tech talk, Forrest will demonstrate best practices for automating IAM approvals, performing local testing and debugging, managing secrets, creating dynamic feature branch pipelines, using versioning vs. stack duplication for team collaboration, and more.
October 08, 2018
Serverless is the rare technology that gets business leaders just as excited as engineers. That's because serverless is not really about technology at all.
September 24, 2018
While custom metrics are an afterthought for many when initially operationalizing their systems, we view custom metrics as one of the things that separates the “good” operations from the “great” ones.
June 22, 2018
What metrics should you be monitoring? What tools and providers should you use? How can you centralize the data and correlate it to gain actionable insights about your production systems?
June 13, 2018
When it comes to deployments, it looks like the grass really is greener on the SAM side of the fence.
May 16, 2018
With Fargate AWS manages your underlying container hosts & cluster for you… just drop your container in and forget it. No server to manage. Sounds “serverless”, doesn’t it?
March 05, 2018
Maybe your business’s software isn’t quite as dangerous as a nuclear warhead, but you’d still prefer it didn’t blow up in your face. For that reason, you might choose to integrate some form of the two-person rule as part of your CI/CD pipeline: requiring multiple people to sign off manually on a code change before it enters your production environment.
March 01, 2018
Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes a Lambda function to run. Today’s topic is ‘Talkin’ Lock-In’. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.
February 20, 2018
Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes a Lambda function to run. Today’s topic is ‘Talkin’ Lock-In’. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.
February 15, 2018
Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes a Lambda function to run. Today’s topic is ‘Talkin’ Lock-In’. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.
February 22, 2018
Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes a Lambda function to run. Today’s topic is ‘Talkin’ Lock-In’. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.
February 08, 2018
Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes a Lambda function to run. Today’s topic is ‘Talkin’ Lock-In’. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.
February 06, 2018
One of the most compelling solutions that is enabled by assembling Lambda with other AWS Platform services is IoT. At Trek10 we are leading the way in building massively scalable IoT back-ends with AWS Serverless.
January 03, 2018
While there is WAY less operational effort, it’s not zero; there are some important things to keep in mind when planning to run Serverless apps in production.
November 24, 2017
Given the many S3 breaches over the past year and some inaccurate information I have seen across various news outlets about the default security of S3, I thought it would be beneficial to demystify some of the complexities of S3 permissions.
September 15, 2017
AWS Lambda makes it easy for developers to write and deploy code at almost limitless scale. What has been hard is debugging that code. Live debugging has been a pipe dream, and offline tools work most of the time but not for everything. We managed to change that with AWS Lambda Debugger.
October 24, 2017
Until recently, running a multi-region API Gateway was impossible to do. Well, impossible without servers. This time is over. With the new launch of Regional API Endpoints for API Gateway, the nightmare is over. You can now do Active/Active or Active/Passive failover with ease.
October 24, 2017
At Trek10, one of the great things about our CloudOps offering is that we often have to solve problems on AWS for ourselves and then use our learning to implement the same solution for our customers. In this case, it was a security challenge. How do we balance the principle of least privilege with a reasonable level of productivity in a wide-ranging set of AWS accounts?
October 10, 2017
Josh von Schaumburg, Customer Solutions Lead and Senior Solutions Architect at Trek10, recently spent some time with the team at LinkedIn Learning recording a new course, Amazon Web Services - Disaster Recovery.
September 13, 2017
The already Improved Force MFA policy now contains the appropriate permissions to allow users the ability to create their own access keys.
September 13, 2017
We founded Trek10 three and a half years ago with a mission to transform our clients’ IT infrastructure by leveraging the very best and latest in cloud technologies. Since then, we’ve been racing at full speed to build a company that provides world-class engineering expertise and support for high-performance environments on Amazon Web Services.
September 06, 2017
In 2015, TechPoint launched the Tech 25 Awards, a prestigious selection of twenty-five individuals who are critical and exceptional performers helping to grow our community’s tech and tech-enabled companies, but who — not being the CEO or other C-suite executives — don’t get celebrated publicly as often as they deserve.
July 14, 2017
In case you’ve missed it, AWSume is a cross-platform AWS command-line tool that makes working with the AWS CLI under different profiles or roles super easy. You no longer have to manually set environment variables, or pass the --profile
June 20, 2017
At Trek10, we always try to consider the need for automation and repeatability with everything that we do. That’s why we focus on using tools like CloudFormation, Serverless, and CI, as well as building other tools.
June 07, 2017
Trek10, Inc., an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner with the DevOps and IOT Competencies, today announced support for AWS Greengrass. AWS Greengrass is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that seamlessly extends AWS to devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage.
April 17, 2017
Way back in March of 2011, AWS announced the release of [Dedicated Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-dedicated-instances/), which allows organizations to launch EC2 instances on dedicated infrastructure. Typically, when an EC2 instance is launched in a VPC, the virtualized infrastructure is built from a pool of shared resources (e.g., CPU units) that is in use by all customers within a given [Availability Zone](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/).
April 05, 2017
There are multiple AWS services that are tailor-made for data ingestion, and it turns out that all of them can be the most cost-effective and well-suited in the right situation. We'll try to break down the story for you here.
March 31, 2017
We have several projects that use DynamoDB heavily. And, while DynamoDB works great, you can hit throttle limits if you are trying to tightly match your provisioned capacity to your actual demand. What about scaling up during the day and down during the night to meet your need? To do this, you would essentially need DynamoDB Auto Scaling.
March 06, 2017
Today we were looking for a quick way to replace scheduled jobs in Jenkins with GitLab CI. Unfortunately GitLab CI does not support scheduled runs. Being the lambda lovers we are, we figured a quick scheduled lambda function could fix this.
February 14, 2017
For all of our customers, any downtime for an IPsec tunnel results in significant business impact. This is why we built a Lambda function in Python that leverages the VNS3 API to check all IPsec tunnels for any outages and then posts a custom Datadog metric to notify our 24/7 CloudOps team of any IPsec tunnel issues.
January 06, 2017
It's more formal and slightly less catchy name is CloudWatch Events with a Scheduled Event Source and a Lambda Target… but we think “Lambda Cron” just rolls off the tongue a bit better.
January 05, 2017
As you know, Lambda functions run in a contained environment. But, what you may not know is that this environment is also often reused for subsequent invocations.
October 20, 2016
Lambda Error Hounds is command line utility, written in node, for getting the CloudWatch logs around Lambda error metrics, or even a specific time from any CloudWatch log group.
October 13, 2016
GraphQL, currently one of the biggest squares on the buzzword bingo card, is gaining a lot of steam recently and serverless sits right next to it.
September 20, 2016
You may have seen the announcement recently about what we at Trek10 consider to be the biggest update to CloudFormation since CloudFormation itself. AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Simplified Substitution.
August 17, 2016
There are many compelling reasons to consider a Serverless/Lambda-based architecture for your next project: scalability, fault-tolerance, low maintenance cost, high flexibility. But one of the most often-cited is cost.
August 05, 2016
When you hear “Serverless” I know what you’re thinking… oh boy, another buzzword! I get it. And it’s a pretty confusing one, on two levels. There are still servers! We're just talking about a new abstraction above the servers, but of course the servers are still hiding down in the stack.
June 16, 2016
The Serverless Framework is fantastic at managing AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and helping wire up all the events and streams.
May 02, 2016
So you’re building your serverless app on AWS for unlimited scalability and true pay-per-use. Your web server is Amazon API Gateway - unlimited scale with zero scaling effort. Your app server is AWS Lambda - ditto, unlimited scale with zero scaling effort. And your database is Amazon DynamoDB - unlimited scale… but not quite zero scaling effort.
April 27, 2016
We have several clients at Trek10 using the Amazon ECR (EC2 Container Registry) as their Docker registry for storing and shipping images to ECS and other systems.
April 02, 2016
Here at Trek10, we work with many clients, and thus work with multiple AWS accounts on a regular (daily) basis. We needed a way to make managing all our different accounts easier. We create a standard Trek10 administrator role in our clients' accounts that we can assume. For security we require that the role assumer have multifactor authentication enabled.
March 21, 2016
As a follow up to our post HTTPS Everywhere, today we'll discuss some history behind the SSL certificate and why they seem to cost so much money. We will also dive into the current landscape of SSL certificates and how you can obtain free Domain Validation certs through AWS Certificate Manager and Let’s Encrypt.
March 09, 2016
CloudWatch Event rules can be scheduled at minimum intervals of 5 minutes. At Trek10, we saw the need for a smaller interval, namely 1 minute. This need arose specifically in the context of handling Auto Scaling within ECS.
March 07, 2016
Often with new technology some of the primary benefits are realized when you reevaluate how you approach a problem. AWS Lambda and event driven computing is no exception.
February 29, 2016
Like any good engineering-driven culture, at Trek10 we constantly evaluate new technologies, tinkering with them to figure out how they might fit into our workflows and processes. Want to know what the coolest new framework we have been playing with recently has been? Serverless.
February 15, 2016
In Part 1, we reviewed a use case for roles in which console users would be required to assume a role for access to the production environment; we have implemented this for some of our more security conscious customers for the benefits we mentioned in Part 1. In Part 2, we will review cross-account roles and some of the different use cases.
February 03, 2016
New technology appears and old job functions become obsolete. The practitioners move on to retrain on higher-value tasks and in the end the whole system is more productive. It happened when cars replaced blacksmiths, when the computer replaced armies of human calculators, and it is happening now as cloud services replace low-level hardware babysitting on a large scale.
November 02, 2015
AWS’s recent outage to DynamoDB and related services in the US East region is a good reminder of some fundamentals of designing for availability on AWS.
September 24, 2015
You cannot deny that Docker+ECS is a compelling solution to many of the promises of DevOps and Cloud infrastructure.
August 24, 2015
The bytes that make up the page you are reading right now were delivered by a set of servers close to you. They were not generated by a server running WordPress or Joomla. In fact, the entire Trek10 website has no traditional server backend at all.
May 24, 2016
Amazon EC2 has over 40 different instance types and keeping track of them all can feel a little daunting. To simplify it, pay attention to something called an “instance family”. This is the prefix before the period in the instance name, for example the m3.large instance is in the family “m3”.
Best practices and thought leadership from the AWS Certified Solutions Architects at Trek10.
