Government Digital Services, Singapore

A complete setup of secure and scalable serverless GitLab runners on AWS Fargate via Terraform IAC and Terragrunt for multi-enviroment…

The Government Digital Services (GDS) team at GovTech hosted a group of adorable kids at our humble abode for an Hour of Code workshop last…

Technical and culture fit

“We cannot be creative because it violates security!” Is this really true?

Three months ago, I started my journey @ GovTech’s Government Digital Services. From developing the legal industry and building…

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?

In Agile development, test automation plays a key role in catching regression bugs. But how much test is enough?

Before starting the test, everything has been set up. But when it runs in the production env., *BOOMZ*. So where exactly went wrong? 😐

What exactly is Exploratory Testing? How can we make use of it to help us with testing?

A summary of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin, as listened on Audible.

We receive patches and hot-fixes from vendors frequently, but how do we check if they’re authentic?

From theory to reality — tips for a smoother adoption

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…

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

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…