I was recently listening to an episode of Security Now when I heard them mention that Cloudflare has a free tier. While I’ve never personally used their service I’ve heard about it a ton of times. Hearing that they have a free tier peaked my interest so I went exploring.
[Read More]The Case Of The Missing Cassandra Gossip Packets
One of my recent tasks was to automate the creation of multi-region Cassandra clusters. I’m still pretty green with Cassandra but have been having some recent success with creating multi-dc (replication group) clusters inside of a single AWS region. The story that follows summarizes what was a painful few days of debugging….
[Read More]New Podcast: Code Monkey Talks
A few former colleagues of mine have recently started a new podcast they call Code Monkey Talks
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Rethinking Datastax Opscenter HA on AWS
Recently I’ve been working on building a highly available installation of Datastax Opscenter in an automated fashion on AWS. I’ve decided to abandon my pursuit of installing Opscenter with automatic fail over and will propose an alternate solution which I believe still achieves high availability as well as much better self-healing.
[Read More]Flashing DD-WRT On A Linksys WRT1200AC V2
This weekend I decided it was time to replace the stock firmware on my WRT1200AC v2. I’ve had the unit for a while now and it’s been working well but I had a little time on my hands so I opted to give it a go. The process itself was pretty easy, but finding the right information was not. Hopefully this saves someone else some time…
[Read More]Welcome Hugo
Well… I’ve gone and done it again. I’ve decided to switch the platform I am using to generate this site. This time around I’m going with Hugo
[Read More]My New UOKOO IP Camera
I recently purchased a UOKOO Webcam from Amazon. At only $40.00 I didn’t have very high expectations but I was pleasantly surprised at what I got
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