GitLab CI AWS OIDC: Replace Static Keys with Short-Lived Credentials
Stop storing AWS access keys in GitLab CI variables. Set up GitLab CI AWS OIDC trust in under 30 minutes and get credentials that expire automatically.
Fix ECR Image Scan Gate Failures in GitLab CI Pipelines
ECR image scan GitLab CI gates fail silently in three distinct ways. Here's how to diagnose each failure mode and wire a hard gate that actually blocks deploys.
AWS Step Functions Lambda S3: 3 Production Mistakes We Made
We wired Step Functions into our Lambda S3 pipeline and hit silent timeouts, payload crashes, and a wildcard IAM role we ignored for months. Here's what we got wrong.
AWS Config CI Compliance Gate: Config Rules vs cfn-guard
Your Terraform apply passes but an unencrypted S3 bucket ships to prod anyway. Here's how to pick the right AWS Config CI compliance gate strategy.
How to Fail CI Pipelines on AWS Config NON_COMPLIANT Resources
AWS Config CI pipeline gate that catches NON_COMPLIANT resources before they stay in production — poll compliance after Terraform apply and fail fast.
How to Query ALB Access Logs with Amazon Athena for Incident Triage
Query ALB logs in Athena directly from S3 during live incidents. No ETL, no SSH grep sessions — just SQL against the exact 29-column schema.
S3 Presigned URLs: Expiration Strategy and Signing Identity Controls
Most teams treat S3 presigned URLs like short-lived tokens. They're not — the signing identity determines everything, and a misconfigured one turns a "temporary" URL into a persistent credential you can't revoke without breaking things.
WooCommerce DB Is Slow: Fix Missing Indexes and Autoload Bloat
Your WooCommerce store passes every load test — until it hits 10,000 orders and the admin grinds to a halt. Here's the exact runbook we use to diagnose and fix the database-layer issues WordPress's default schema never addresses.
WordPress php-fpm Profiling: Three Mistakes That Hid the Real Bottleneck
We had php-fpm slow logging enabled for six weeks and thought we were monitoring everything. Turns out every slow request was silently vanishing into /dev/null — and php-fpm never said a word.
Hardening Jenkins Agents: Isolate, Restrict, and Verify Your Build Nodes
Default Jenkins agent configuration has several quiet security gaps that can hand an attacker full root on your build host. Here's the layered approach we use to close them.
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