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About My Migration to AWS

January 19, 2019January 19, 2019| Andrew|Leave a comment

After a long a deep think, I’ve decided to retire my physical hardware and migrate all of my machines to Amazon Web Services.  It wasn’t an easy choice, and I feel like I need to spend some time explaining why, just get some things off my chest.

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GnuCash Template for Harland Clarke Laser 417 Checks

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018| Andrew|Leave a comment

So this is kinda random, but I needed a template to make these checks work with GnuCash.  So if some other lazy soul wants to use it, here it is 🙂

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“Smart” Failover with Redis Sentinel and Keepalived

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017| Andrew|Leave a comment

Through some Google-fu and some other great tutorials, I’ve successfully setup a groups of Redis machines with automatic failover detection via keepalived and sentinel.  This sounds mundane, but lets you setup another layer of protection for your Redis cluster without lots of extra configuration.

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Adding a Firewall Rule to Debian 9

October 17, 2017October 18, 2017| Andrew|Leave a comment

Not too long ago in the Linux world, firewall rules were complex.  iptables did its job very well, but managing rules was daunting for a newcomer.  Debian 9 introduces some changes that make it pretty simple to add a firewall rule.

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Autowired Traits in Symfony

October 7, 2017October 7, 2017| Andrew|Leave a comment

This is something that I think is pretty slick in Symfony.  With 3.3, Symfony introduced the idea of autowired services.  Basically, you just put a type hint for what you need and the container injects the correct service as if by magic.  You can take advantage of this in some more unusual places that aren’t immediately apparent after reading the documentation.

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