Talks around Computer Science and Stuff
In: AWS
21 Apr 2021AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM), allowing to easily generate encryption keys. AWS manages the hardware security module (HSM) appliance, but does not have access to your keys. Customers control and manage their own keys. A cluster of CloudHSM appliances can be provisionned within a VPC and requests are automatically load balanced […]
In: AWS
11 Apr 2021Introduction In a perfect world, we should always protect the network by avoiding unnecessary open network ports. Protecting a resource (such as an EC2 instance) in AWS can be done by using a security group, which acts as a virtual firewall to control incoming and outgoing traffic. However, there are cases where defining the inbound […]
In: AWS
15 Nov 2017I just released a little project in Github that provides an easy way to generate data sample and push them to something like a AWS Kinesis stream. This is quite handy if you need for example to build a POC or a demo and require some data set. Here is the link to the github […]
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12 Sep 2017I just got the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification. That’s all 5 AWS certifications !
In: AWS
1 Sep 2017I just passed the AWS Certification SA Pro Certification. One more left !
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15 Aug 2017This one was easier to get than the Solution Architect one.
In: PHP
18 Aug 2015I recently released a PHP client to consume Optimal Netbanx services on Github. https://github.com/alfallouji/PHP-Optimal-Netbanx You can integrate your application using this agnostic Card Payments API to process all major credit cards through the NETBANX payment gateway. It implement a wide variety of REST-based API requests – including purchases, refunds, and authorization reversals. Obtain output in […]
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20 Oct 2012I was able to invest time on improving the UI and adding new features to fxalert.net. Fxalert.net is a web application allowing to create simple and advanced email and SMS alerts on the forex market. It supports more than a 100 of currencies pair. The new features includes the following : – Integration with facebook […]
A friend and I have been working on different projects together. We recently decided to share one of our script to the open source community. The name of the tool is the Autoload Manager. The AutoLoad Manager is a generic autoloader that can be used with any PHP framework or library. Using the PHP tokenizer […]
Wufoo shares a very neato tool called PHP Quick Profiler or PQP. It basically allows a developper to have some usefull and fancy logging on a piece of code. How hard is it to use ? Well, it took me around 3 minutes to download and use it on one of my scripts. Here is […]
My name is Bashar Al-Fallouji, I work as a Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
I am particularly interested in Cloud Computing, Web applications, Open Source Development, Software Engineering, Information Architecture, Unit Testing, XP/Agile development.
On this blog, you will find mostly technical articles and thoughts around PHP, OOP, OOD, Unit Testing, etc. I am also sharing a few open source tools and scripts.