Steffan Norberhuis
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Steffan Norberhuis
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AWS & DevOps | Founder Rocketleap
Yesterday, I gave a presentation about Incident Management at Scale at the Navara and Essent meetup. Of course, the lights went out during the meetup!

Incident management at scale is all about organizing people to quickly work together to resolve an incident.
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Is the total share of adoption an argument in picking between competing technologies?

Similar arguments are made in the Terraform vs AWS CDK discussion. But it doesn't matter.
December 23, 2024 at 8:28 AM
I have written a blog post on how to start with compliance on AWS.

https://rocketleap.dev/blog/start-compliance-on-aws/

Often, the focus is just on fixing the issues you know will be problematic for your next audit. So, the approach feels improvising.
How to start with compliance on AWS
Learn how to achieve compliance on AWS with a clear and defined path to your first audit. This guide shows Rocketleap’s learnings of supporting other companies in achieving continuous and automatic…
rocketleap.dev
December 18, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Software Development is only a small part of a business.

Starting and running a business has taught me so much in the last two years. I am a better engineer for it.
December 16, 2024 at 8:28 AM
It seems GitHub actions just became self-aware and sentient. This repo has no actions defined, yet it reacted:
December 13, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The year is almost complete. Time to reflect: Did AWS hold you back or drive growth for you in 2024?

The AWS marketing and presentations make everything seem so easy. Big enterprises are reporting incredible successes. Everyone looks so happy.
December 11, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Have you ever opened your latest monthly AWS invoice and thought: Oh, Sh*t!

I sure have! During the building of Rocketleap, we experienced several unforeseen cost incidents. Some were pretty nasty.

Looking forward to seeing the result of this new update at our customers.
Today, we released version 0.15.0 of the Rocketleap Platform!

This new version contains several new major features:

November 28, 2024 at 3:58 PM
"We saved another €1200 per year by simply configuring autoscaling. "

This is what a Rocketleap customer told me the other week.

But is autoscaling simple?
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 AM
The Developer Compliance Paradox

When I work with a new group of developers, I notice they mostly ignore the compliance team. Or worse, they don't take the compliance team seriously.
November 20, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Two years ago, I saw a big challenge in the cloud industry. Large enterprises were spending big bucks building a platform for their developers in AWS. Midsized companies and scaleups struggle with the same challenges.

How can we ensure our cloud is safe, reliable, cost-effective, and compliant?
November 18, 2024 at 9:19 AM