Posts authored by Simon Hildrew:
Friday, 29 October 2021
A retrospective on a decade of innovations
Simon HildrewThe Guardian’s digital team ran a retrospective over an entire decade to understand how we’ve innovated in the past in order to help us innovate more today
Friday, 18 May 2018
Why the Guardian is using encrypted EC2 root volumes on AWS
Simon HildrewIn an ongoing effort to adhere to security best practices the Guardian is starting to use encrypted root volumes by default on servers in AWS.
Friday, 23 December 2016
Multiple DNS: synchronising Dyn to AWS Route 53
Simon Hildrew, Jenny SivapalanIn a time of frequent DDoS attacks we run through how we increased our DNS resilience by using multiple providers at little extra operational cost.
Monday, 5 January 2015
Delivering Continuous Delivery, continuously
Phil Wills, Simon HildrewThis extract from the Build Quality In anthology of DevOps and Continuous Delivery experience reports explains how the Guardian adopted Continuous Delivery.
Friday, 14 February 2014
Encrypting sensitive data in Puppet
Simon HildrewMoving to DevOps ideally means sharing configuration management data with developers, without losing control of production passwords and private SSL keys. Intelligently encrypting sensitive data with hiera-eyaml makes it possible to share almost everything without the obfuscation slowing you down.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Winning the metrics battle
Simon Hildrew, Nick SatterlyThe Guardian's lead Infrastructure Developer runs through the team's use of metrics and monitoring for guardian.co.uk
