Couple of days ago I’ve stumbled upon interesting tool that may save quite some time for tech-savvy – gauth, a two-factor-authentication CLI tool. Wait, what is two-factor authentication? Two-factor authentication (2FA) — also known as two-step verification or multifactor authentication — adds a layer of security to your online accounts, from Amazon, Apple and Google […]
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One of the goals that my colleagues and I emphasis when implementing DevOps best-practices is seamless CI-CD process. While some AWS services are bundled with deployment strategies out-of-the-box, sometimes, we want to be agnostic to a specific “wrapping” service (Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy) and run our apps on “bare” EC2 instances, thus gain more control. So
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When it comes to Infrastructure-as-a-code, Terraform has emerged as the clear winner among other platforms, especially when comparing it to its prime competitor – good ‘ol AWS CloudFormation (Sorry Jeff… :)). This open-source project has swept the DevOps community, peaking with over 21k stars on GitHub. Its main advantage is being cloud agnostic supporting hundreds
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Terraform has been a great tool for me to maintain infrastructure as a code (IaC). In fact, 90% of our current environment infrastructure is provisioned via Terraform. Lately, I’ve stumbled upon a challenging case: How to zip AWS Lambda function on the fly without using external script? Well, apparently there’s a little trick that doe’s this
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Several days ago I’ve experienced an unpleasant situation where I was locked out of my WordPress admin page due to a bug / misconfiguration in Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSof. Each time I tried to login I was denied, regardless of the captcha being marked: Pretty nasty situation, considering that I’m locked out of the admin
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As the size of data in our world continues to grow, we will increasingly have to deal with data that that doesn’t fit into memory (a constraining factor for those using R/Python). While one solution is to buy more RAM (which is now easier than ever in cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Azure),
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The following is a soup to nuts walkthrough of how to set up and deploying a Django app to Amazon Web Services (AWS) all while remaining sane. Tools/technologies used: Python v2.7.8 Django v1.7 Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, and RDS EB CLI 3.x PostgreSQL This article has been updated to cover deploying with Python 3
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