Phil Lavin’s Articles at Phil’s Blog, Page 2

AWS Aurora Global Clusters Explained: What you wish they told you before you built it

AWS Aurora Global is, on the face of it, a decent product. Aurora is a MySQL fork with a tonne

DynamoDB Local is a Java application which you can run locally to test your applications against DynamoDB, without the need

Systemd units can be used to automatically start Docker containers on boot. Systemd, by default, will also monitor for the

Ansible’s AWS ACM module didn’t, at time of writing, support generating new certificates. ACM certificates can be programatically generated and

Intro to AC Units An air conditioning unit isn’t a hugely complex bit of kit. Its major electrical components are

I’ve recently gotten back into Electronics projects. Given the raft of small components and tools you need, it’s tricky to

Intro Looking around online, it seems this unit breaks a lot. Mostly the cause of the breakage seems to be

Foreword NAT and PAT, in their many forms, are so common these days that almost all of CloudCall’s customers use

Foreword AWS Lambda is absolutely wonderful. The ability to deploy code and have it triggered by a variety of sources

JunOS has some system wide settings for TCP MSS. These are limited to all TCP, IPSec VPN and GRE. Sometimes