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Continue reading →: AWS S3 Storage Classes – Tech Talk Notes
I listened to a Tech Talk on AWS S3 recently. They covered some high-level stuff, and then some low-level stuff. High-Level (S3 Storage Classes) Amazon S3 Standard – Active Data (S) Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access Data (SIA) Amazon Glacier – Archive Data Low-Level (Storage Class Analysis) Use storage class analysis…
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Continue reading →: Slack – Notification – PowerShell
I recently started using Slack more, specifically with custom notifications sent from outside Slack to my Slack channel. There are many different ways to do this. For this blog post, I will show you how I setup message sending with PowerShell. PowerShell (Super Easy!) Use the PSSlack module to make things…
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Continue reading →: AWS CLI and Output Filtering
I love the AWS CLI –query option. It allows you to pull out the relevant data you are looking for and display it in a nice table format. There are a couple different ways to determine what the correct query parameters are. #1 – Run your command and parse through…
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Continue reading →: Scrum Retro – Forgetful – Mailbox
So you are on a Scrum team that performs retro’s at the end of an iteration\sprint. And during the beginning of these retro’s, everyone ponders (or tries to remember) what went well and what didn’t go so well. Pretty common issue for many Scrum teams. Possible Solution – Setup a…
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Continue reading →: AWS Chalice – I must try it!
Traditional REST API Setup in AWS Multiple EC2 instances Part of an Auto Scaling group Setup with an Elastic Load Balancer Code is manually deployed with your tool of choice (e.g. Ansible) CloudWatch for monitoring Serverless REST API Setup in AWS Amazon API Gateway (front door) API Gateway handles monitoring,…
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Continue reading →: VSTS – New User Email Address
I just created a new Visual Studio Team Services account and wanted to add some colleagues to the account. However, my colleagues do not have Outlook or Hotmail user accounts. What to do? After some quick research, it turns out that because this new VSTS account is not backed by Azure…
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Continue reading →: Oracle Coherence – VisualVM Plugin
If you are doing any work with Oracle Coherence clusters and caches, you MUST download the VisualVM Coherence plugin. It gives a great view of the cluster, members, state, and statistics. Information and download – https://blogs.oracle.com/oraclecoherence/new:-visualvm-plugin-for-coherence-released-through-the-coherence-incubator For a full view of the cluster, you will want to connect to the “monitor”…
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Continue reading →: Gradle – Flat Repo (flatdir)
What the heck is a Flat Dir repository in Gradle? Well, its basically a directory(s) that contain a set of files that can be used to resolve dependencies. Note, Gradle will assume no transitive dependencies with this type of repo. A good use of this repository type may be within a…
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Continue reading →: Ansible Automates – Minneapolis
Mark your calendars – August 3rd, 2017 – Ansible Automated Minneapolis
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Continue reading →: Jenkins Redundancy like a Boss
Here is one way to add some data redundancy to your Jenkins instance. The solution below won’t auto recover, but the data itself should be safe if your active Jenkins master fails. The following are some key points not really mentioned in the beautiful Google Docs created chart above! A dedicated file…