The road to a successful and easily reproducible AWS infrastructure deployment is riddled with pitfalls and you do not want to introduce more of them by using an abstraction layer that brings even more pain and tears.

Are you still having an uphill battle with security, does it always feel like just one more problem to solve? Or you treat it more like a feature that gets de-prioritised at each of your Sprints? Perhaps you sometimes even struggle to understand what that "security hype" is all about? Read on and discover how to embrace security to make it the cornerstone of any information system you build.

Microservices or monolith? If you are still on the fence, this write-up might show you how to choose the right answer based on your project, team and their skills, budget and time constraints. As an added bonus, a look is also taken at the nanoservices: a fairly new phenomenon on the systems architecture landscape.