David J Eddy – Hi, welcome to my technology blog.

Story: Well that was pleasantly unexpected; and pretty awesome!

AWS, General
2019-10-02

So there I was yesterday minding my own business, working on some assigned tasks like the good little engineer I am. My break time comes around so I check my… Read More »

How-to: Easily update MariaDB from 10.0 onward on Cent OS 7

BASH, MariaDB
2019-09-272019-09-27

The Situation Recently I had to update the database services in an number of environments. The reasons were the typical ones: performance, bug fixes, keeping-up-with-the-jones, etc. Like any good infra-… Read More »

Opinion: Bad pay-wall implementations and how to get around them.

General
2019-09-262019-09-26

Like ’em or hate ’em paywalls have been around since the early days of the web. And from the business perspective I fully understand why they exist: At the end… Read More »

How to: Delete a stubborn Kubernetes namespaces.

Kubernetes
2019-09-252019-09-25

The Situation Recently I was introduced to a new project. The getting started documentation was decent and I was able to get the project started up. When it came time… Read More »

Trial: 30 days with VueJs

Community, Javascript, Programming, vueJS
2019-08-142019-08-14

Is VueJS worther your time? Like any other tech, tool it depends on the problem at hand. Read on to see if vueJS is the right tool for your job.

Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes.

General, k3s, Kubernetes, Rancher
2019-08-012019-08-01

What is all this? The official documentation states “…k3s is a intended to be a fully compliant production-grade Kubernetes distribution with [the following] changes…”. But what does that mean in… Read More »

Intro: Hashicorp `Packer`

AT / CI / CD, Hashicorp, Packer, Resource Provisioning
2019-07-302019-08-02

The problem space… In today’s modern application development process an applications has many homes. Local development, (docker) containers, on premise Linux servers, maybe even Unix mainframes for production. Often an… Read More »

AWS IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

AWS, Cloud Computing
2019-07-152019-07-15

From the AWS “Whats New” news feed: Posted On: Jul 11, 2019 The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available in TypeScript and Python. AWS CDK is an… Read More »

Tagging with Terraform

Terraform
2019-06-252019-06-25

Using cloud resources can be accelerating to the business, liberating to the engineering teams, and expensive to bank account. If you have every left a large compute or database instance… Read More »

GO(lang)

GO, Golang
2019-06-182019-06-18

Tim Bray posted a short article concerning Golang over on “on going” back on June 12th. Recently it has bubbled up to my attention so I gave it a read.… Read More »