Ainsofs Blog: Technology insights from the Pacific Islands

Samoa Code Hub (SCH) formally Samoa Stackoverflow, held its first virtual workshop last night on ☁️AWS Cloud Fundamentals. Ali'imuamua Ron Amosa in his personal capacity shared his experience in AWS Cloud technology.  The workshop covered the key types of services provided and how to leverage it to deploy applications or run process intensive tasks. 🚰"Think of it as a tap. Turn it on and run your processes. Turn it off once you are done", Ron stated. "You only pay for what you've used", he continued. With cloud tech you have access to super computers and servers all around the globe. The S3 service lets you store up to 5TB of data for a single file 😲. The workshop concluded with a Q&A session. There was lively discussions on a range of topics such as: 🗺Which locations have the most performant servers? 💵What happens to your data if you dont pay bills? 🔒What happens when there is a court order to retrieve your data? The workshop was well attended by m...

These are my key takeaways from the DrupalSouth '22 talk - "The Pragmatic Guide to Defending Drupal". It covered ways to defend Drupal from cyber attacks but can also be used in other stacks. They are categorised into the following environments:  local dev - your day to day development environment pull request/ deployment - the process of pushing your code to your repo hosting/prod environment - your production environment Key takeaways Have an incident response plan (local dev environment) Can be as simple as using your README.md file with the following headings If you look after multiple sites, use a central document or handbook for the organisation to refer to It tells owners what to do in case of an incident Use a CDN (hosting/prod environment) Cloudflare, Fastly and Akamai were mentioned (I work with Cloudflare, it has many defense mechanisms) Amazon Cloudfront - recommended if you are already hosting with AWS CDNs provide a way to mitigate the attack at the proxy...