The mysqldump finished without complaining about a single line, and for a second you get that calm of someone who thinks the job is done. Then the file gets pointed at the shiny new RDS instance, enter is pressed with confidence, and the import dies on the very first function with an error about a … Read more
In this post I describe how I create a on-premise solution to handle with videos that needs scenes segmented, faces identified, subtitles generated, thumbnails picked, metadata pulled into the catalog. This post is about how we stopped trying to win that math with people and started winning it with our own AI. TL;DR: How SOFA … Read more
The whole stack was on AWS, but the domain’s DNS was still answered by GoDaddy. Every time I needed to add a record I was logging into the wrong console, in the wrong mental model, miles away from everything else. I didn’t want to transfer the registration, chase an EPP code, or sit through a … Read more
Your site runs fine on Nginx, the DNS points where it should, port 80 is open, and yet the browser still slaps a “Not secure” label right next to your domain. Visitors see it, you see it, it judges you. Back in the day, fixing this meant buying a certificate from some authority and wiring … Read more
Your EC2 disk is full. The app is throwing errors, the logs stopped rotating, and the CI/CD pipeline is silently failing. You already resized the volume in the AWS Console, but the OS has no idea. This post walks through the exact steps to make the OS actually use that new space. TL;DR: Resize an … Read more
Kubernetes is the gold standard for container orchestration, but running it yourself is operational overhead you don’t need. EKS gives you a managed control plane so you can focus on your workloads instead of the cluster itself. TL;DR: Set up an AWS EKS cluster, deploy workloads, configure networking and storage, and manage the cluster with … Read more
You deployed your Flask app to EC2 and everything works. Then the instance restarts after a maintenance event and the app doesn’t come back up. The fix is a systemd service: it tells Linux to start your app automatically on every boot, restart it if it crashes, and manage logs through journald. TL;DR: Create a … Read more
Your dev RDS instance and ECS services run 24/7, including weekends when nobody is using them. That is money leaving your account for no reason. A Lambda function on an EventBridge schedule can stop them on Friday night and restart them Monday morning with zero intervention. TL;DR: Use AWS Lambda + EventBridge cron schedules to … Read more
Your team is already in Slack. Instead of building separate dashboards or notification systems, a Slack bot can deliver alerts, respond to commands, and surface important events right where your team works. TL;DR: Create a Slack bot using the official API, configure permissions, get a token, and send messages programmatically.Stack: Slack API, Slack Bot TokenLevel: … Read more
You need Windows for a specific tool but don’t want to dual-boot or buy a second machine. KVM/QEMU on Linux gives you a full Windows VM with near-native performance, clipboard sharing, and shared storage between host and guest. TL;DR: Install KVM/QEMU on Linux, set up virt-manager, create a Windows VM, configure video and display with … Read more