En varias ocasiones, en BigCheese, se nos ha presentado el desafío de que una entidad financiera (un Banco local, o una billetera electrónica, o un facturador electrónico, o una procesadora de transferencias) requiere apoyo para resolver dos problemas relacionados: En ambos casos, el desafío no era solo cumplir los compliance, sino también contemplar los más […]
Author: Seba Grattarola - CTO
CS Engineer.
Automation lover, DevOps & SRE passionate. Certified DBA & AWS architect/developer/DevOps engineer.
Sucker for helping people/companies with IT problems, and becoming together part of the solution.
Enjoying being part of an excellent team that keeps getting better every day.
Any given day for me at Big Cheese includes (but not limited to):
- Database/Application/Server performance tuning.
- CI/CD Pipelines and automation setups.
- Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS infrastructure.
- Define performant & well-architected solutions in complex environments.
- Improve the whole team's knowledge and tooling through experimentation.

Cultura DevOps. La búsqueda utópica de la excelencia operacional con un objetivo claro, optimizar tu negocio.
La optimización de costos es uno de los 5 pilares del marco de buenas prácticas de arquitectura en AWS. La variedad de servicios y opciones de precios de AWS ofrecen la flexibilidad para gestionar eficazmente tus costos y mantener el rendimiento y la capacidad que se necesite. AWS, a través de BigCheese, ayudan a los […]

More and more often I get asked about how to reduce AWS usage costs on current cloud infrastructure. Well, it depends on each account, but we will share below some suggestions that apply to most AWS accounts. Read our 5 AWS Cost Optimisation Tips. Actually, Cost Optimization is one of the 5 pillars from the […]
AWS DevOps Engineer Certification
6 months have passed since we first released MUS. MUS is an Android/iOS/web application for listening to music that gives a relevant place to domestic artists content, that sometimes are hard to find in the bast international catalogs, or that haven’t been reached by the digital inclusion yet. (If you are interesting to learn more about de […]
ENABLE CORS ON AN ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER
A couple of weeks ago we needed to consume from a ReactJS frontend some REST services hosted on some EC2 instances, standing behind an Elastic load balancer. As you may know, if both the frontend application and the services are not served on the same host (in our case the ReactJS frontend was on a […]
AMAZON EC2 VS ELASTIC BEANSTALK
This is one question that we get asked a lot: “Should I deploy my website and database both on an EC2 instance, or should I go for an Elastic Beanstalk environment and an RDS?” For example, if you have a PHP/MySQL website, you may launch an EC2 instance and install everything in there.Or, you may […]
One great feature of modern relational databases is the ability to replicate changes automatically from one database server to another. This has many use cases, from having a backup that is ready to jump as a production server, to having a fresh copy of your data out of the online database for heavy load queries. In a project for ANII, […]
On november 2016, Amazon launched Lightsail, a new product that is based on his previous and already known services, but with one big feature: simplicity, at fixed prices. Lightsail offers several instance images with applications pre-installed and ready to be run, for a fixed monthly price, and without the need of understand anything about EC2 configurations, VPCs, […]