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Self-hosting your location history with OwnTracks
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Self-Hosting
Owntracks
Google Maps
Looking to find an alternative to Google Maps Timeline? OwnTracks is a self-hosted location history tracker and might be a decent alternative to Google Maps Timeline.
Improve web application performance using AWS Global Accelerator (NET327)
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I talk about how we at The Trade Desk serve our users with the AWS Global Accelerator.
Running containers on AWS
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This talk looks at the options available and a general guide on what service to pick when running containers on AWS.
Bulk tagging all instances in an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) using AWS CLI and JMESPath Expressions
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DevOps
Tips & How-To's
Aws
Ec2
Tagging
I dig into AWS CLI a little bit to explain how we can use JMESPath expressions to apply client-side and server-side filtering and bulk tag instances of an Auto Scaling Group.
How do you specify a target hostname for a https request?
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DevOps
Tips & How-To's
Curl
Sni
Tls
Https
I’ve been using hostname spoofing with curl for a while and I find out why hostname spoofing doesn’t work with TLS.
AWS Networking
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A brief summary about Networking in the cloud on AWS/GCP that covers VPC, subnets, routing, ingress and engress packet flows.
How to get fzf working in PowerShell
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DevOps
Tips & How-To's
Fzf
Powershell
Opensource
Here’s how you can get the goodness of fuzzy search in your PowerShell terminal with fzf.
Enabling automated multi-region failover and failback using Route 53
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Presented at AWS Community Day 2022 - I talk about using Route 53 and enabling automated multi-region failover and failback using Route 53.
Self-hosting FreshRSS (for free) on Fly.io in under 10 minutes
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DevOps
Self-Hosting
Fly.io
Here’s how you can self-host FreshRSS on Fly.io in under 10 minutes
Migrating Route 53 records from Latency Based Routing to Geolocation routing with zero downtime
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DevOps
Route 53
DNS
Aws
I had some fun playing with Route 53’s routing policies.