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A Script for Deploying Docker-Hosted Applications to AWS ECS

Learn how we deploy Docker-hosted applications using the AWS ECS. A sample deployment script and example repository are provided.

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Sharing an EFS Filesystem Across ECS Instances, Services, and Tasks

How to automatically mount an AWS EFS volume for sharing data across AWS ECS instances to support Docker containers with multiple application instances.

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Livestream: “The Art & Craft of Secrets: Using the Cryptographic Toolbox”

This talk will review what the crypto tools are and how they fit together with our frameworks to provide trust and privacy for our applications.

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Don’t Forget to Kick the Tires – On Automatic Monitoring & Human Intervention

Monitoring systems can only be programmed for a finite set of situations. There will always be things overlooked and complexities not anticipated.

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Amazon Lambda Auto-Deployment For Your Alexa Skill Using AWS CLI

How to use AWS CLI to auto-deploy an Amazon Alexa skill. We decided to find a way to auto-deploy our Skill with each Git commit.

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Utility to Initiate the Rebuild of Indices for CouchDB Design Document Views

I wrote a utility to aid in rebuilding the indexes for CouchDB Design Documents Views. This is particularly useful after a server migration, or data import.

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Generating a Timeline from Google Calendar

My script queries the Google Calendar API to retrieve events from different calendars, then lists the events in a timeline in order by start time.

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AWS IoT Help Button

I procured one of the new AWS IoT buttons and programmed it to page me when pushed. This ensures I can provide timely hands-on help around the office.

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Easy Secure Web Serving with OpenBSD’s acme-client and Let’s Encrypt

Using OpenBSD, acme-client, and Let's Encrypt, it's almost entirely painless to set up a secure web server. This post walks you through getting set up.

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Conference Room A/V Build-Out

Our new conference room A/V setup gives us important capabilities required for many of our meetings, especially teleconferences.

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How (and Why) to Log Your Entire Bash History

An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.

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Ansible Communication with AWS EC2 Instances on a VPC

Using SSH options like ProxyCommand, Ansible can readily work with privately addressed EC2 instances on a AWS VPC subnet.

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