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Functional Servers, Or is that Serverless?

September 15, 2019April 30, 2020Krystan Leave a comment 1746 views

One of the worst named popular technologies is “serverless” technology. Nothing could be further from the truth, clearly, there are servers behind all the magic, it’s just that you aren’t responsible for them.  Two popular technologies in the cloud are Microservices and Webservers. The services are often hosted by the webservers. Then came container technology…

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Packing it all up neatly

September 7, 2019September 7, 2019Krystan Leave a comment 1845 views

Packer is an image creation tool, its Created by the guys over at Hashicorp and its here to make our lives easier when deploying images. Just recently I’ve been doing a lot of work on Amazon Web Services and needed a way to have AMI images quickly and neatly created so I could have them…

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Setup mailgun with a domain hosted by Google Domains

April 9, 2019September 7, 2019Krystan Leave a comment 2693 views

The very first thing you will need to do is to add your domain. And the very first thing that Mailgun will have advised when you set it up was that it was probably best to use a subdomain of your main domain, this was very good advice and for this article assume the subdomain…

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Now we are sailing we are open.

April 30, 2018April 2, 2019Krystan Leave a comment 3080 views

In my previous article, I explained I was moving my blog to Amazon Lightsail, it was a pretty painless move and to be honest I was very happy with the experience. That is until I realised I was going to need to sort out the SSL certificate that is installed by default. The image created…

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Moving my Blog from its home to AWS Lightsail

March 5, 2018September 6, 2018Krystan Leave a comment 3279 views

This is the second post to this blog and its to say that its moved homes. Whilst the domain may have stayed the same its permanent home has moved from Webfaction where it has lived for a long time to AWS. I did this for a few reasons but the real driving force was that…

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The Ever Changing Landscape

September 7, 2017March 15, 2019Krystan Leave a comment 3344 views

Once upon a time we, as software developers, could rest assured that we had a set technology and could solve problems. We called ourselves “Java Developers” or “C++ Geeks” and we were proud to do so. A certain mystique and culture surrounded each of these languages and sometimes people from different camps didn’t get on…

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