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Deliver big bet initiatives
Deliver big bet initiatives
10 Learnings on Delivering Innovative Products at Scale
Sylvia Ng
Mar 20
Self-management: Removing blockers can sometimes be the blocker itself.
Self-management: Removing blockers can sometimes be the blocker itself.
Helping others do the work may come with good intent. But have you ever wondered about the unintended consequences? It can be a trap for…
Nicholas Li
Mar 15
Reusability: More Than Just Tech —Enterprise Design Thinking for Government Agencies
Reusability: More Than Just Tech —Enterprise Design Thinking for Government Agencies
(In terms of reusability, tech goes way beyond just reusable modules and code bases. GovTech UX Designers, Delivery Managers and Software…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Feb 25
Deploying Serverless GitLab Runners on AWS Fargate with Terraform
Deploying Serverless GitLab Runners on AWS Fargate with Terraform
A complete setup of secure and scalable serverless GitLab runners on AWS Fargate via Terraform IAC and Terragrunt for multi-enviroment…
Quy Tang
Nov 10, 2022
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Cybersecurity Control vs Cyber Resiliency
Cybersecurity Control vs Cyber Resiliency
Is one more important than the other? Or do they have to go hand-in-hand? 🤔🤔🤔
Team Merlin
Mar 23
Running your first cybersecurity tabletop exercise (TTX)
Running your first cybersecurity tabletop exercise (TTX)
Ever wonder how big organisations measure their cybersecurity readiness? TTX is one of the ways. And no, TTX is not like monopoly.
Team Merlin
Mar 2
ChatGPT’s Coming for You!
ChatGPT’s Coming for You!
So embrace it today.
Yeo Yong Kiat
Feb 27
Behind the scene of strengthening & securing the cloud env.
Behind the scene of strengthening & securing the cloud env.
Do you also conduct Cloud Vulnerability Assessment (CVA)? If yes, how do you execute it? What are your requirements?
Team Merlin
Feb 9
Engineering Excellence: How We Take Pride in Delivering Quality Code
Engineering Excellence: How We Take Pride in Delivering Quality Code
At GDS, we’re all about engineering excellence.
Terence Lucas Yap
Feb 2
Musings from a Tech-Noob: Protocols & Connections
(It’s been about 5 months in a tech organisation, where I am at GovTech Singapore, and I must say understanding communication and behaviour…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Jan 27
All Hands on Deck: The GovTech Way
All Hands on Deck: The GovTech Way
(Far too often, we focus on the latest tech know-how and rocket products — but what really makes an organisation tick is how the…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Jan 22
Does compliance kill innovation? 🤔
Does compliance kill innovation? 🤔
“We cannot be creative because it violates security!” Is this really true?
Team Merlin
Jan 19
The First 90 Days — Reflections on Onboarding into a New Organisation, Team, and Role
The First 90 Days — Reflections on Onboarding into a New Organisation, Team, and Role
Three months ago, I started my journey @ GovTech’s Government Digital Services. From developing the legal industry and building…
Kylie Goh
Jan 15
Conduct tool POC in 5 steps — how?
Conduct tool POC in 5 steps — how?
Have you faced issues whereby you’ve procured & setup a tool only to realise it’s hard to use or doesn’t work well with your tech. stack?
Team Merlin
Dec 15, 2022
Test Automation Coverage — A perspective
Test Automation Coverage — A perspective
In Agile development, test automation plays a key role in catching regression bugs. But how much test is enough?
Team Merlin
Nov 24, 2022
The easily forgotten test cases
The easily forgotten test cases
Before starting the test, everything has been set up. But when it runs in the production env., *BOOMZ*. So where exactly went wrong? 😐
Team Merlin
Nov 3, 2022
The Art of Exploratory Testing
The Art of Exploratory Testing
What exactly is Exploratory Testing? How can we make use of it to help us with testing?
Team Merlin
Oct 13, 2022
Book Summary: 10 points from ‘Extreme Ownership’
Book Summary: 10 points from ‘Extreme Ownership’
A summary of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin, as listened on Audible.
Muhammad Syuqri
Oct 12, 2022
Validating file authenticity — how?
Validating file authenticity — how?
We receive patches and hot-fixes from vendors frequently, but how do we check if they’re authentic?
Team Merlin
Sep 22, 2022
Sprint Bazaar — Behind the scenes
Sprint Bazaar — Behind the scenes
From theory to reality — tips for a smoother adoption
Nicholas Li
Sep 6, 2022
Set up mTLS in App Mesh in 3 steps
Set up mTLS in App Mesh in 3 steps
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…
Peng Hiang Low
Sep 5, 2022
Securing & strengthening my cloud resources — how?
Securing & strengthening my cloud resources — how?
With the shifting workloads from traditional on-prem to cloud-based hosting, how can we secure & strengthen our cloud posture & resources?
Team Merlin
Sep 1, 2022
Dev-◯-Ops: The Trinity
Dev-◯-Ops: The Trinity
Over my years working as a DevOps engineer, I have observed something between Dev and Ops called the “circle of work, ◯”.
GOH Yew Lee
Aug 30, 2022
Tech-Threats: The Risks and Opportunity Cost of Product Customisation
Tech is very much in the business of delivering services to customers and meeting their needs. Very naturally, we’re all inclined to meet…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Aug 30, 2022
Can Tech Move Policy?
(This post was inspired by speaking to one of my colleagues who asked me whether I really thought tech could make a bigger difference than…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Aug 24, 2022
The Economics of Data Portability in Long Term Care
The Economics of Data Portability in Long Term Care
(Previously, I wrote about a technical implementation of data portability in the healthcare sector — taking a step back, I thought to…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Aug 20, 2022
Are You Scrumlost?
Are You Scrumlost?
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…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Aug 19, 2022
Privacy in Web 3.0 Applications: Facilitating Public-Private-VWO Sector Collaboration
(Crediting Raymond Yeh with this idea, through another post he shared via LinkedIn. Encouraged by the number of ideas coming in through…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Aug 13, 2022
The Trust Triangle: Issuing Disability Certificates as Verifiable Credentials
The Trust Triangle: Issuing Disability Certificates as Verifiable Credentials
(I previously wrote about how we could implement data portability in healthcare through the issuance of verifiable credentials. Spoke to a…
Yeo Yong Kiat
Aug 12, 2022
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