I recently passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification and thought i’d share my experience. I’ve been using AWS for about 18 months and have a strong background with cloud...

I have just passed my CCSP examination (3rd September 2022). It took me around 3 hours to complete the 150 questions. I found the exam pretty technical, which suited me well. I found that especial...

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some cloud security related standards which are worth memorising. Standard Overview ISO 28000 Specification of Sec...

Most technology professionals will stumble across networking at some point. The minefield of subnetworks, CIDRs, broadcast addresses, network addresses and subnets can be overwhelming, but most peo...

I recently volunteered to develop a website for a friend, who wanted the ability to send emails directly from the frontend. On the surface, this is a straightforward request, but the reality is tha...

This post details the implementation steps to integrate MicroK8s Kube API Server with Azure in order to use Azure Active Directory (AAD) identities within your cluster. The OAuth 2.0 framework sup...

I’ve wanted to play around with ReactJS to see what the fuss is about for a while now. I also had some ideas around finance domain categorisation and thought that i could nicely tie the two concept...

I use terraform with Azure for all the obvious benefits that Infrastructure As Code provides. However, sometimes it makes much more sense to provision resources via the frontend portal, or via the ...

After consolidating just those 3 data sources, i have a HUGE amount on information on the residents of Reading. Obviously the results are only as good as the data. The companies house data is makin...

Continuing on from my first post, this post focuses on sourcing and massaging my data into a usable format ready for cross referencing and some analysis. As detailed in my first post, i received 38...