System Design - Andrew Matveychuk

Feb 15, 2021 Microsoft Azure How To System Design Ghost

Ghost deployment on Azure: Security Hardening

In the first part of this series, I wrote about running Ghost on Azure Web App for Containers. Here we will explore some security improvements to the original deployment configuration, as I promised last time.

Jan 18, 2021 Microsoft Azure System Design

Design the access management process for Azure resources

Access management in Azure is a broad and complex topic consisting of many interconnected parts, including Azure Active Directory, the Role-based Access Control (RBAC) model, resource permissions, service-specific access configurations, and so on.

Feb 6, 2020 DevOps Incident Management System Design

Monitoring from the DevOps perspective

Despite the common misconception, monitoring in a DevOps-aligned organization is not about “Hey, let’s use Prometheus, ELK, Grafana or whatever else and output nice dashboards on big wall-mounted screens!” Moreover, monitoring is not about tools and underlying technologies.

May 14, 2019 System Design Microsoft Azure

Why 99.99% uptime or SLA is bad

How do you understand uptime / SLA? Do you know what it means for your system? How much are you willing to pay? How much money will you lose each hour your system is down? What is a reasonable uptime? Let's try to answer these questions.