Monthly Archives: November 2015

Pipegate

The joys of home ownership never stop giving and I’ve been having some fun with my old nemesis of plumbing… A few weeks back we got a rather curt letter from Wellington Water/Wellington City Council (WCC) advising us that they … Continue reading

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Welly

Been getting out and enjoying Wellington lately, it should be a great summer!

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My IAM policy is correct, but awscli isn’t working?

I ran into a weird issue recently where a single AWS EC2 instance was failing to work properly with it’s IAM role for EC2. Whilst the role allowed access to DescribeInstances action, awscli would repeatedly claim it didn’t have permission … Continue reading

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The Proprietary Renaissance

noun, re·nais·sance often attributive \ˌre-nə-ˈsän(t)s, -ˈzän(t)s, -ˈsäⁿs, -ˈzäⁿs, ˈre-nə-ˌ, chiefly British ri-ˈnā-sən(t)s\ : a situation or period of time when there is a new interest in something that has not been popular in a long time : a period of … Continue reading

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Your cloud pricing isn’t webscale

Thankfully in 2015 most (but not all) proprietary software providers have moved away from the archaic ideology of software being licensed by the CPU core – a concept that reflected the value and importance of systems back when you were buying … Continue reading

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