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Deliver big bet initiatives

10 Learnings on Delivering Innovative Products at Scale
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Sylvia Ng
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…
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Nicholas Li
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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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…
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Quy Tang
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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? 🤔🤔🤔
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Team Merlin
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.
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Team Merlin
ChatGPT’s Coming for You!

ChatGPT’s Coming for You!

So embrace it today.
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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?
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Team Merlin
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.
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Terence Lucas Yap

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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
Does compliance kill innovation? 🤔

Does compliance kill innovation? 🤔

“We cannot be creative because it violates security!” Is this really true?
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Team Merlin
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…
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Kylie Goh
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?
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Team Merlin
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?
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Team Merlin
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? 😐
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Team Merlin
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?
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Team Merlin
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.
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Muhammad Syuqri
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?
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Team Merlin
Sprint Bazaar — Behind the scenes

Sprint Bazaar — Behind the scenes

From theory to reality — tips for a smoother adoption
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Nicholas Li
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…
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Peng Hiang Low
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?
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Team Merlin
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, ◯”.
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GOH Yew Lee

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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat

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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat

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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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…
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Yeo Yong Kiat
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