Why We Chose Fluentd Over Fluent Bit

2021-10-12

Fluent Bit is a log shipping agent, designed to be lightweight and run in distributed environments. So why did we pick Fluentd, which is written in Ruby and predates Fluent Bit?

SRAM eTAP AXS Front Derailleur Adjustment

2021-10-10

SRAM don’t make it particularly easy to find a quick reference on eTAP AXS front derailleur adjustment without having to sit through a Youtube video.

TL;DW: turn the top screw on the front derailleur clockwise to stop your chain from falling off when shifting up.

VPC Endpoints Without the Magic

2021-05-19

A short summary of the two types of VPC Endpoints and how they work.

VPN to any EC2 Instance using SSH

2021-04-19

A horrible hack that allows you to create a VPN tunnel from your workstation to any of your EC2 instances – even one you don’t have direct network access to, such as an instance in a private subnet.

Why You Need PSPs in EKS

2019-10-04

Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are an important component of security in Kubernetes. Lets explore what happens without them.

GitLab Monorepo Pipelines

2019-09-18

Exploring GitLab’s new Directed Acyclic Graph feature to build monorepo CI/CD pipelines.

Git Revert Last n Commits

2019-07-11

To revert the last n commits using git:

git revert HEAD~3..HEAD

Smoke Testing Infrastructure

2019-05-24

Some real-world examples on how to smoke test infrastructure.

AWS Summit 2019

2019-05-04

A few thoughts and photos on the Sydney AWS Summit 2019.

gVisor on ECS

2019-03-19

Google’s gVisor exists to provide a true sandbox for your Docker containers. It replaces runc, the default Docker runtime which recently had a serious vulnerability ¹.

In theory gVisor is a drop-in replacement for runc, but does it actually work with Amazon ECS?