Government Digital Services, Singapore

With the shifting workloads from traditional on-prem to cloud-based hosting, how can we secure & strengthen our cloud posture & resources?

In my project, the National Platform for Health Claims (NPHC), we’ve been using AWS App Mesh as our service mesh solution and recently, we…

Creating your own images that doesn’t suck, doesn’t have to suck.

From theory to reality — tips for a smoother adoption

Over my years working as a DevOps engineer, I have observed something between Dev and Ops called the “circle of work, ◯”.

(Previously, I wrote about a technical implementation of data portability in the healthcare sector — taking a step back, I thought to…

When I find the time, I write more about other topics at http://rogueteacher.me. It’s a place for me to re-discover my love for Physics…

(I previously wrote about how we could implement data portability in healthcare through the issuance of verifiable credentials. Spoke to a…

Open-source = open to public. There’s no reason NOT to address any vulnerabilities found. But what happens if there’s no fix?

It’s my third week at GovTech, and it has dawned upon me that teams here are highly experimental. For one thing, one of the delivery…

(I previously wrote about how the concept of data portability could ease the interoperability issue, but was rather silent on a possible…

Singapore Design System (SGDS) recently launched v2.0.0 and its corresponding React component library.

(This article was inspired by one of the products championed by one of my GovTech teams i.e. HealthCerts. You can read more about their…

Have you ever been to an actual sprint ceremony? Well, I have never, until last week that is. Even the actual ceremony itself is daunting —…

With the recovery and backup tools available in Amazon Aurora, it allows for teams to meet tighter RPO (Recovery Point Objective)…

This post references my experience building a Singapore lottery (TOTO) web app that periodically displays winning lottery numbers and…

The majority of the Singapore government payouts fall under two broad categories — direct credit (cash) and vouchers. For direct credit…

“Automate EVERYTHING!” — Is this a familiar answer you get whenever you ask what needs to be included for automation testing?

Cross-browser development and testing aren’t easy tasks. How do you ensure your web app works across different browsers?

How can we automate API tests effortlessly using some of the existing tools?

Passwords exist in almost every aspect of our digital life; we use it for… But what’s considered a good password?

While presenting a risk report, do you get huge resistance/argument debating that some risks won’t happen? Is there a better way to handle?