Articles
A collection of practical observations from my work in IT service management, cloud technology and hands-on AWS projects. The focus is on decisions made, problems encountered, lessons learned and the operational thinking behind the technology.
CLOUD MIGRATION
Status: In progress
Rebuilding andyhopla.com as a static AWS workload, moving from a managed website builder towards an architecture using AWS services, Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment.
CLOUD OPERATIONS
Status: Planned article
What implementing CloudWatch Synthetics for a production website taught me about monitoring frequency, cost, proportional controls and operational decision-making.
PROJECT CASE STUDY
Status: Planned article
Taking a commercial website from development through AWS infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring and ongoing operation.
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Status: Planned article
Why incident management, change, problem management, service ownership, monitoring and operational discipline continue to matter when services move into modern cloud environments.