Gatsby is currently generating a ton of buzz as the new hot thing for generating static sites. This has lead to a number of frequent questions like: A static…what now? How is GraphQL involved? Do I need to set up a GraphQL server? What if I’m not a great React developer, really more of a bad React developer?

Opsgenie Edge Encryption is a new feature that makes it easy to secure sensitive data and meet compliance requirements while using Opsgenie for alerting and incident management. Edge Encryption secures data before it leaves your environment, you manage the encryption keys, and the experience is seamless for users. Atlassian has no access to the encrypted data and neither do potential attackers.

I’ve been working on creating AWS Cognito User Pools in CloudFormation, and thought this would be a good time to share some of what I’ve learned.

Microsoft Azure has long proven it’s a force to consider in the world of cloud computing. Over the past year, Azure has made some significant steps in bridging the gap with AWS by offering new services and capabilities as well as competitive pricing.

So a while back I got an email from our finance team. I was tasked to assist with tagging resources in our AWS infrastructure and investigate which items are contributing to certain costs. I don’t know about other engineers, but these kinds of tasks are on the same realm of fun as … wiping bird poop off your windshield at a gas station. So I did the sanest thing I could think of.