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a stack of books
21 May 2019
Josiah Huckins

Make HTTP Caches bend to your DevOps will

Caching is used everywhere, from static websites to distributed cloud apps. When it comes to performance, it's still one of the best tools in your toolbox. When it comes to pushing updates live, it can seem like caches are weaponized against you...

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24 Aug 2019
Josiah Huckins

Akamai VS. Cloudflare: Comparing top CDNs

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are becoming a key to success in optimizing end user experience....

some RAM chips
25 Aug 2019
Josiah Huckins

VM to JVM Memory
Optimizations

When allocating memory for a cloud environment, you have to consider the multiple layers...

an old key
27 Aug 2019
Josiah Huckins

Identity Management on the Google Cloud Platform

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google's answer to the AWS cloud offerings from Amazon...

AWS VPC
27 Aug 2019
Josiah Huckins

Demystifying the Connection from VPC to your DC

Amazon Web Services' Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a game changer. VPC allows customers to setup any addressing scheme they want. The platform is not limited...

a scantron sheet
28 Aug 2019
Josiah Huckins

Environment Sizing and Testing Considerations

Testing should not be an afterthought...

an Apache helicopter
10 Jan 2020
Josiah Huckins

Improve your site security with these rewrites

These rewrites can make your site more secure.

clouds on a sunny day
19 Feb 2020
Josiah Huckins

GPU Clouds, A Fitting Solution

For engineering simulations and 3D animation, take hold of scalable GPU power in the cloud!

a raspberry pi cluster
28 Mar 2020
Josiah Huckins

Build A Compute Cluster with Raspberry Pi!

In this one, I'll detail how you can setup your very own Pi server farm.

shipping containers
18 Jan 2022
Josiah Huckins

My technique for
backing up Services

This is a dual step process for data backup that supports full or partial recovery.

an electronic lock
13 May 2022
Josiah Huckins

Securing
Containers

Put some armor on those cloud ready apps!

a truck with too much loaded on the bed, juxtaposed next to a mini cooper moving very fast
15 July 2022
Josiah Huckins

PSA: Load testing is not Client Performance testing

This discusses the important distinctions between application load testing and application performance testing in clients.

an LCARS interface
16 July 2023
Josiah Huckins

Check out this Home Assistant theme based on Star Trek

Get Star Trek's LCARs menu system on your HA dashboards and party like its stardate 41000!

a cloud of polaroids
05 March 2024
Josiah Huckins

Personal Cloud: Photo Service Replacement Part 1

Setup your own ai capable, personal photo and video management service!

a cloud of polaroids
05 August 2024
Josiah Huckins

Personal Cloud: Photo Service Replacement Part 2

Here in part 2, we setup an alternative service for personal photo and video management!

a lighting bolt strikes a coffee cup
23 August 2024
Josiah Huckins

Adventures in AEM: Switching from Webpack to Vite

Integrate Vite with your AEM frontend projects for a modern building experience!

racks of server blades in a datacenter
30 August 2024
Josiah Huckins

DC Details: Battle of the Blades

We dive into the history of blade technology, and compare the blade offerings from Dell and HPE.

abstract lines
03 September 2024
Josiah Huckins

A well reasoned case for the 4 day work week.

You can be more productive and have a longer weekend, but it takes corporate courage.

abstract lines
13 September 2024
Josiah Huckins

Categorizing Cloud Data: A Business Use Case Overview

Understanding how to categorize your data is crucial to using it effectively and keeping it secure.

a home assistant wall control panel
16 September 2024
Josiah Huckins

Make It! - A Star Trek inspired home control panel

We'll mix some light woodworking, a banana pi and home assistant to make a wall panel that looks like it belongs in space!

soccer netting
17 January 2025
Josiah Huckins

Make It! - Portable Soccer Nets

All it takes is some PVC pipe, glue and netting to make sturdy, collapsible soccer goals!

arrows pointing up
10 April 2025
Josiah Huckins

Deploy a serverless blog!

We've migrated from pis to containers and workers. Here's how.

abstract words in a digital ether
24 April 2025
Josiah Huckins

Automate content translations with minimal effort!

This site is now automatically translated to 100 languages, thanks to help from a new partner.

Our Posts:

  • Build A Compute Cluster with Raspberry Pi!
  • Make HTTP Caches bend to your DevOps will
  • Akamai VS. Cloudflare: Comparing top CDNs
  • VM to JVM Memory Optimizations
  • Identity Management on the Google Cloud Platform
  • Environment Sizing and Testing Considerations
  • Demystifying the Connection from VPC to your DC
  • Improve your site security with these rewrites
  • GPU Clouds, A Fitting Solution
  • My technique for backing up Services
  • Securing Containers
  • PSA: Load testing is not Client Performance testing
  • Check out this Home Assistant theme based on Star Trek
  • Personal Cloud: Photo Service Replacement Part 1
  • Personal Cloud: Photo Service Replacement Part 2
  • Adventures in AEM: Switching from Webpack to Vite
  • DC Details: Battle of the Blades
  • A well reasoned case for the 4 day work week.
  • Categorizing Cloud Data: A Business Use Case Overview
  • Make It! - A Star Trek inspired home control panel
  • Make It! - Portable Soccer Nets
  • Deploy a serverless blog!
  • Automate content translations with minimal effort!

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  • Step2Fight
  • Stellar Knight

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