AWS EC2 + S3

Bye bye s3fs-fuse, hello S3 Mountpoint

AWS recently released Mount point for S3 into general availability. The TL;DR is the ability to mount an S3 bucket as a Linux volume. In…
AWS RDS

RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones… but why would you want to?

After over two decades in tech. I have learned there are three things you never, ever, ever want to mess with short of research or…
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Using YAML aliases to DRY your configurations

When projects reach any level of complexity the ability to change the projects configuration arises. Often YAML is used as a human and machine readable…
AWS EC2 + S3

Mounting non us-east-1 AWS based S3 bucket into an EC2 instance

The Problem AWS S3 is a global service for storing block data; however, when using a bucket as a file system is can be confusing…

Proposal: CI, CD -> CI, CD, CR

In the realm of software development it is impossible to go a week without heard about CI/CD. At a high level the concept of continuous…

AWS announces the ability for different user/pass from Amazon.com

Got this email less than 30 minutes ago; hopefully this is the first in many step to separate AWS and Amazon operations entirely.
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Re-post: The YAML document from hell.

Re-posting an article by Ruud van Asseldonk discussing the pitfalls of YAML. For what it is worth, I am firmly on team extend JSON with…

Goodbye LastPass; Hello BitWarden.

The password manager service LastPass has had a rough go of it lately. The breaches in the closing months of last year has shaken confidence…

`DevOps is a failure` by Lee Briggs

A brief article regarding the failure of DevOps; with an offering of a new, more focused, replacement. https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/06/21/devops-is-a-failure