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Using systemd to manage services
Systemd is a convenient set of tooling that can be used to manage services and applications on a linux server. It would be good to follow the filesystem when putting the files on the server https://en.
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Basic SSL Setup - server and client SSL certificate setup
Install nginx on the instance. We would also probably need to install vim as well to make it changes on nginx configuration. sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y nginx vim sudo su mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl cd /etc/nginx/ssl Create the following file in ca.
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Building Nginx RPM from source
NOTE: As software advances, some of the commands shown below may become depreciated/irrelevant. If one encounters errors - check the output logs to see what the issue is (e.g. missing library?
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Python Flask Apps in GKE
This are some notes in the case where one wants to deploy a bunch of python “microservices” to a GKE cluster. These notes emphasize on the basics rather than the various nuances of running a “production” grade python application.
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Deploying R Shiny Server to Cloud Run
Sometime earlier this year (2021), Google Cloud Run started to support websocket support - which is one of the critical components in order to be able to run a R Shiny Dashboard application.
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Lessons from building Slides to Video App - Part 1
A long time back, sometime in 2019 (which is almost an eternity ago ), I kind of did up an application that can take some slides saved in a pdf file and generate a video out of it.
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Charting a career path in the tech world
DISCLAIMER: The following article is just an opinion. Naturally, each person have their own work experiences that they can use to project their future plans; so take the items in this article with a large spoonful of salt when applying it into your own perspective.
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Automating the admin work when organizing webinars in a meetup group
There is actually plenty of work that needs to be done in order to continuously and consistently organize webinars in a meetup group. I am involved in one of them and it takes quite a bit of effort to maintain such effort to ensure that the group look “alive” with webinars being continuously churned out during this unique situation.
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Tripping over helm hooks
One typical way to do packaging for applications that are to targeted to be deployed into a Kubernetes environment would be to utilize the helm tool. The helm tool has been used widely enough to the point that there are whole ecosystems that support the usage of this tool.
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Implications for having switchable loggers
Loggers in codebases are generally code that is just taken for granted. We would usually imagine that we’ll just choose a logger library, import it and then just utilize in code.
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