My son bought me this set of 3D printing accessories for Christmas. We have had a 3D printer for a few years but have only printed trinkets we downloaded. We have never printed anything custom that we …

I have meaning to update my profile pictures for a few years now. The old one was nearly 20 years old and look a lot different. At least my hair is a lot greyer. Of course, I am never happy with a …

NOTE: This issue was resolved on May 17th 2024. There is an issue with the sign-in flow in the v1.4 of the Amazon Q Developer extension release last night. This only impacts Code Server used in the …

After two years of little to no travel, it picked back up in a big way for 2022. My daughter, Emily, has become a huge fan Dr Martens shoes during the pandemic. She owns four pairs. So I have started …

I have a few Raspberry Pis around the house doing various tasks and wanted to automate Docker image builds using AWS CodeBuild. I assumed I could build on the Graviton ARM instances and run on the Pi. …

RSQL is a command-line client for Redshift. Unlike the psql command-line, RSQL has control flow commands (IF, ELSE, GOTO, etc.) that are useful for ETL jobs. I want to run RSQL in a Fargate container …

AWS Amplify is a framework to accelerate web and mobile application development. I needed to build an API that would return a binary object. Specifically, it allows me to download a PDF file. I could …

I published a post this summer with a few simple demo applications I use when configuring AWS infrastructure. I needed something similar for a serverless application on AWS. In other words, a Lambda …

Every Halloween my kids and I build some kind of decoration to scare everyone. The past few years we have been evolving a pneumatic wolf head that pops up and scares you. Then, it takes a picture of …

AWS Directory Services allows you to join AWS resources to Microsoft Active Directory. This includes Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon FSx, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Appstream 2.0, …

I need to run a load test against Redshift. However, rather than repeatedly running a few sample queries, I want to replay all queries from the audit log over a period of time. I had never tried to do …

When doing a customer demo, I often need a simple app. Generally I am discussing the infrastructure – Elastic Load Balancer, API Gateway, etc – and the application is unimportant. I have …

I have been working on multi-tenant OpenSearch (a.k.a. Open Distro for ElasticSearch) project. This article (https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-multi-tenancy) (from 2015) outlines a few isolation …

When moving from SQL Server to PostgreSQL a common issue is case sensitivity. PostgreSQL 12 adds support for nondeterministic collations. These are my notes from testing various scenarios in Aurora. …

In this final post I’ll list a few additional optimizations for reducing the first invocation times. See part one and two for more details. Burst CPU According to this video Lambda functions get …

I’m abandoning the multi-cloud blog hosting model that I was using in favor of AWS Amplify to simplify TLS configuration. But I thought I should document the old approach a little further in …

In part one, I looked at what happens the first time an ASP.NET application is invoked in Lambda. When we left off, we had a roughly 3 second initial response time. In this post I’ll focus on …

The ability to host an ASP.NET project in AWS Lambda is a great way to get started with serverless. However, cold starts can result in a slow first invocation of the ASP.NET function. In this post …

In the post, I will show you how to build a Linux container in Visual Studio running on a EC2 Windows Instance. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio allows you to deploy your project to Elastic Container …

I recently upgraded my home network from the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to the UniFi Security Gateway (USG). Similar to the EdgeRouter, the USG supports most common configuration tasks from the web UI, but …

Pearson OnVUE Broke Mac Mission Control Pearson has started offering Online Proctored exams. You download the OnVUE application and take the exam from the comfort of your home. This sounds great, but …

Cloud Storage and Trailing Slashes Shortly after configuring this site to be served simultaneously from AWS, Azure and GCP, I realize I had a bug. Occasionaly the images were not loading. Ironically …

I spent some time over Thanksgiving moving my blog from Blogger to Hugo. I have been hosting my site in an Amazon S3 bucket with an automated build in AWS CodeBuild. That has been running well for the …

When I first moved over to Hugo, I struggled to get the robots meta tag working. Note that I am using the Ananke theme and this may be different for other themes. Primer Honestly, I have not spent a …