Devopstom's Blog

For me, this is the future.

Getting started with a relatively new AWS service

Focussing on knowledge sharing throughout the AWS Community

The process I went through to recover data off a dead macbook

Home/Office to VPC connectivity for a lower cost

Yesnaby.

I’ve been making things with Django since around 2009. Usually I just deploy a thing onto a DigitalOcean droplet, and move on. For an…

Multi-cloud Free Tiers

Moving this blog to the CLOUD!

Featuring Telegraf

Featuring InfluxDB, Grafana and Arduinos

Two factor all the things!

Protect all the things!

Update all the things!

A rule to live by

Part 5 of 5

Part 4 of 5

Part 3 of 5

Part 2 of 5

Part 1 of 5 all about Ansible

Know your IPsec from your OpenVPN

Is it all it's cracked up to be?

Here Be Dragons

Never.

Pesky things.

Build your own PBX for under $40

Too short for a full blog post

Interviews are not like hats

If it ain't broke, but isn't perfect, should it be fixed?

Notes on Interviews

A service that I've never used since

Blogposts age like fish

Building a website to handle thousands of views per minute, with zero budget

Wrapping up 2012

It's all fun and games until the raptor fences go down

So.. it transpires that I have a friend who studied Physics at Imperial College, and as a part of that, was taught how to use C++ “As a tool…

Automating the boring tasks

Crossing ancient streams

Restaurants try too hard, and don't succeed

Sometimes some things just don't add up...

Extension to a Serverfault Answer

A bit long-winded and wordy, but interesting.

Event notes: an Astound Wireless job

War stories from dealing with massive companies

In praise of a simple tool

Don't make legit things that look like malware.

Life on the bleeding edge Part 2

Life on the bleeding edge

Adventures in naughty Bash

They're flocking this way!

Don't store files *in* databases.

The bare basics of making .deb files

If the service isn't OK, why return 200?

Improving stability of a deployment system

Does scrum really fit for DevOps?

postgresql magic runes

OpenSSL magic runes

Why are all cash register systems awful?

Tell your operations staff when you're running a promo.

How I came out

Be ethical, and you'll do well.

TL;DR: Maven.

Right. This is important. I want you stop what you’re doing and read this. It won’t take long. I’ve just witnessed another act of…

The devil makes work for idle thumbs

Backups are hard.

Hardware is cheap, downtime is expensive.

A rant about image hotlinking not being all that bad

Scary infrastructure decisions

This is real life social engineering.

A long post about not relying on one provider.

A mechanism for updating DNS with DHCP leases

2 factor authentication is good

Further evidence that name game memes are harmful

How to build a project in 5 days.

In praise of simple graphing.

In praise of server tin.

Details on some drivers I wrote once.

The legacy of a nobody I work hard, and try not to let the future bother me. I don’t make 10 year plans, hell, I’m lucky if i know where I…

Another personal coming out story (from a friend)

Personal story of how Tom came out.

Pretty tiles I found.

Say for example you want to build a new Virtualization cluster. You’ve chosen the CPUs you want, and know you want 32 GB of fast shiny RAM…

How unexpected TV publicity can be damaging for unprepared websites.

Early criticism of facebook posts gathering osint.

A story in 100 words.

The problems of wikis, and vandalism

A brief discussion on the fallacy of an uncrackable password

RAID is not a backup

Criticism of early internet banking