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Tag Archives: presentation
Deep Dive into ECS
I spent a fair bit of time in 2017 re-architecting the carnival.io platform onto Amazon ECS, including working to handle some tricky autoscaling challenges brought on by the nature of the sudden high-load spikes experienced when we deliver push messages to customers. … Continue reading
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Tagged aws, cloud, containers, docker, ecs, kubernetes, meetup, presentation
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Puppet Autosigning & Cloud Recommendations
I was over in Sydney this week attending linux.conf.au 2018 and made a short presentation at the Sysadmin miniconf regarding deploying Puppet in cloud environments. The majority of this talk covers the Puppet autosigning process which is a big potential … Continue reading
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Tagged aws, cloud, devops, linux.conf.au, presentation, puppet, security
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Detectatron
I recently installed security cameras around my house which are doing an awesome job of recording all the events that take place around my house and grounds (generally of the feline variety). Unfortunately the motion capture tends to be overly trigger happy … Continue reading
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Tagged aws, cloud, code, detectatron, home sweet home, lambda, presentation, security
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DevOpsDays NZ 2016
I recently spoke at the inaugural DevOpsDays NZ in Wellington. The team whom put together the conference did an amazing job and it’s one of the few conferences that I’ve really enjoyed recently. If they put together a subsequent conference … Continue reading
Tagged conference, devops, devopsdays, geek, open source, presentation
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Fairfax’s Cloud Journey at Auckland AWS Summit 2016
I recently presented at the 2016 AWS Summit Auckland about Fairfax’s cloud journey as part of the business stream “Key Steps for Setting up your AWS Journey for Success” alongside two excellent Amazon engineers. It’s a bit different from my usual … Continue reading
Tagged aws, cloud, devops, geek, lambda, presentation, serverless
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Node.js deployments at Fairfax with Code Deploy, Codeship and 12factor
This week I presented at the Node.js Wellington meetup around the tooling we have setup at Fairfax for running micro services for Node.js apps. Essentially we have a workflow that uses Codeship for CI/CD and AWS Code Deploy for deployment. Our apps … Continue reading
AWS Cost Control at Fairfax
Earlier this month I was invited to speak at the AWS Wellington User Group around how we’ve been handling cost control at Fairfax including our use of spot pricing. I’ve now processed the video and got a recording up online for … Continue reading
Tagged aws, cloud, cost control, fairfax, geek, presentation, spot pricing, work
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“OpsDev”
I recently did a talk at one of the regular Fairfax “Brown Bag” lunches about tools used by the operations team and how developers can use these tools to debug some of their systems and issues. It won’t be anything … Continue reading
Tagged fairfax, geek, linux, open source, presentation, talk, web, work
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LDAP & RADIUS centralised authentication
I recently did a presentation at the June AuckLUG meeting on configuring LDAP and RADIUS centralised authentication solutions. It’s a little rough (first time I’ve done a presentation on the topic), but hopefully is of use to anyone interested in … Continue reading
Tagged auckland, aucklug, ldap, linux, open source, presentation, radius
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