Zdenek Farana

Jack of All Trades

Successful product development requires grasp of business, design, and technology — with focus on humans. That's what I do.

Hide Your AWS Lambda Environment Variables From Prying Eyes

30 Jan 2020 · 5 minutes on aws, aws-lambda, serverless, security, cloud-native-configuration, cloud-native

There is a lot you can write about configuration in the age of cloud-native architectures. And then there are simple steps which are easy to miss and yet they’re crucial: How do you handle sensitive environment variables in AWS Lambda? 🧐 …

Resurrect a website with Hugo

11 Mar 2019 · 5 minutes on blog, hugo, static-generator, asciidoc

New year, new website. Yay :) For two or three years, I used About.me for a web presentation and Medium.com for writing. No more. I tried many platforms over the years — Blogspot, Wordpress, Ghost… but nothing really stuck until …

Pragmatism and Corporate Politics

5 Feb 2017 · 3 minutes on organizational-design, corporation, organization

We tend to treat corporate (or office) politics as something despicable while it is a necessary and even vital part of working and dealing with other humans. Any group, no matter if small or big, will manifest a certain degree of internal dynamics — …