While we strive to deliver at pace there can be an over-confidence and a positioning of past policies and frameworks as being too rigid, of failing to allow the freedom with people to get on with their work.

Quick bunch of notes on moving data between container on AWS using RDS. Here we have 2 stacks, each with a container sitting on an EC2 instance. The container is running a simple rails application connected to RDS specified in the DB_HOST environment variable. There are other shortcut ways to do this but this is the ‘pretty straightforward' way 🙂

Opinionated mantra though it is, I believe that the improvements brought by automation, cloud architectures, and intelligent processing of the resultant data streams mean that new opportunities are available to benefit peoples lives through access to knowledge and services.