All posts on markn.ca covering cloud, security, privacy, and technology.
Serverless is hot right now, but are we all talking about the same thing? In this live stream, we dive into what serverless is, why it’s a big win for your business, and how to get started.
Security is often misunderstood and addressed in the last stages of a build. Operationally, it’s ignored until there is an emergency. In this talk, we review several advanced security processes and discuss how too easily automate them using comm...
Amazon Athena lets you treat files in Amazon S3 like they were a database. That doesn’t sound too cool until you realize the possibilities: data stays in place, storage is low cost, data management gets easier. Now add in Amazon Quicksight. Thi...
Amazon S3 was one of the first AWS services and it continues to be the cornerstone of the AWS Cloud today. This stream covers the basics of the service and how to ensure that your data is only accessed in the ways that you expect.
CBC’s Go Public pointed out the rising rates of e-transfer fraud and consumers are shocking. The expectation was that e-transfers were safe and convenient…turns out, not so much.
Keeping a personal website up to date is always tricky. The technical pieces are simple, it’s be satisfied with the design and making the commitment to focus on the site when there is a ton of other, maybe more interesting work to be done. Need...
The Shared Responsibility Model governs how operations (which security is a part of) work in the cloud. In this live stream, we explore the realities of the model and how to verify AWS is fulfilling their responsibilities.
Don’t be afraid of the command line (CLI), it’s insanely useful. This live stream explores those uses and shows you how to use the AWS CLI to accomplish some simple but helpful tasks in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Lambda is probably the most talked about service in the entire AWS Cloud. It lets you run your code based on various triggers with almost no overhead. In this live stream, we look at AWS Lambda basics and even complete a small project connecting ...
AWS re:Invent 2019 is going to be HUGE. Mark will be conducting a series of live streams and publishing a ton of content leading up to the show in early December. In this stream, we get the series started off with some questions to you and an overvie...
CBC News posted an article about how Canadian federal MPs are using digital tracking technologies on their personal websites. So what is retargeting? How is it used? Why is its use in politics different?
Letting customers know about a security vulnerability is never an easy thing. From the logistics of it to the reputation management issues. But this is a critical aspect of delivery software and services. What’s the best way to tackle this prob...