Should you offer notice on a contract when it’s not compliant? I did, and I’ll tell you why. Reading Time: 6 minutes Winning the Work A while back, I agreed to commence on a contract for a large Financial Services institution. After completing the ‘interview’ process (a format which, in my...
If you’re on a keto diet, intermittant-fasting, or water-fasting, you might be supplementing with electrolytes to alleviate Keto-flu, heart palpitations, headaches, muscle-shakes, and a variety of other ailments that can happen when you’re restricting your food intake. But what is the reference...
There are two reasons you might encounter this issue on AWS Lambda. You’re attempting to import a library that isn’t available by default in the Lambda Runtime environment. In which case you need to include the dependencies in the /python directory of your function package or included Lambda...
A recurring question with AWS Lambda functions is how to properly use third-party binary executables in the Lambda execution environment. A lot of people like to use precompiled binaries but often they’re not available and the only option is to compile the package you want to use from source....
AWS announced on the 28th August 2019 that the entry-level certification – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – was now available to be taken remotely from the comfort of your home or office. This certification is comparatively recent, having been released in December 2017, and would be redundant...
If you’re using the AWS ACM console to create a certificate, and at the final stage you get this annoying and useless com.amazon.coral.service.InternalFailure , I’ve got the solution for you. You’re probably working in an AWS Organization with a Service Control Policy (SCP) or a restricted IAM...
I’ve read a lot of articles lately talking in doomworthy terms about the Off-Payroll working rules from April 2020 that will apply to the private-sector for contractors. Similar rules have been in force for the public-sector since 2017, with many widely predicting that private-sector IT firms...
In November AWS announced Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations in the Cost Explorer. Great! I thought, finally some free native support for what a lot of cost-analysis companies offer at a price. And yet when I look at the recommendations, they seem completely wrong to me. Each...
Recently I was frustrated in a Jenkins build when I was running Docker-in-Docker to build and push a container to AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). The error on push was a familiar `no basic auth credentials` which means some issue with the credentials stored in ~/.docker/config.cfg (or...
This is a true story, although names and details have been removed or changed to protect the awful. Quotes however are verbatim. As often happens when you have ‘DevOps’ in your job title, I received some recruitment agency spam from someone I’ll call Jane, c/o LinkedIn, alerting me to a...
