View Blog Post

Next-Generation Managed Services are Self-Service

The traditional managed services provider (MSP) model is broken and needs disruption. The next-generation managed services model is about guiding customers in a self-service manner. The key drivers causing customers to seek cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) include the agility and cost efficiencies they afford. The agility helps customers be more responsive to Read more…

View Blog Post

Use AWS CodePipeline to Deploy Amazon Alexa Skills

If you’ve done any experimentation with the Amazon Alexa voice service, you’ve probably learned that you can use AWS Lambda to write functions that can be executed from Alexa. As a developer, what’s exciting about this is that you can create your own custom Alexa skills to perform anything suited for voice-based computing. You’ll probably Read more…

View Blog Post

DevOps in AWS Radio: Serverless (Episode 8)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak with Mike Roberts and John Chapin from Symphonia about Serverless architectures, DevOps, and AWS. Here are the show notes: DevOps in AWS News You can now provision AWS Web Application Firewall on Application Load Balancer resources using AWS CloudFormation Agency Panel Discussion about DevOps and Read more…

View Blog Post

DevOps in AWS Radio: Parameter Store with AWS CodePipeline (Episode 6)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich from Stelligent cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak about the release of AWS CodeBuild and how you can integrate the service with other services on AWS. Here are the show notes: DevOps in AWS News Managing Your AWS Resources Through a Serverless Policy Engine Introducing Git Credentials: […]

Read more…

View Blog Post

Stelligent CTO and Co-Founder, Paul Duvall named an AWS Community Hero

Paul Duvall, Stelligent CTO and Co-Founder, has been named an AWS Community Hero. The AWS Community Heroes program is designed to recognize and honor individuals who have had a real impact within the AWS community. Among those are AWS experts who go above and beyond to share their experience and knowledge through social media, blogs, events, user Read more…

View Blog Post

Refactoring CD Pipelines – Part 1: Chef-Solo in AWS AutoScaling Groups

We often overlook similarities between new CD Pipeline code we’re writing today and code we’ve already written. In addition, we might sometimes rely on the ‘copy, paste, then modify’ approach to make quick work of CD Pipelines supporting similar application architectures. Despite the short-term gains, what often results is code sprawl and maintenance headaches. This blog post series is aimed at helping to Read more…