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One framework that I instantly fell in love with was Inky.

After a long a deep think, I’ve decided to retire my physical hardware and migrate all of my machines to Amazon Web Services.

So this is kinda random, but I needed a template to make these checks work with GnuCash.

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.

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.

This is something that I think is pretty slick in Symfony.

Today, The Storehouse experienced an outage that lasted approximately 12 hours.

When you have an application, there’s inevitably some things that just need to be done periodically.

One thing that’s really handy for your Ubiquiti EdgeRouter is to have it act as a VPN client.

One of the new tools I’ve discovered is Chef to manage the configuration and software on Storehouse’s fleet of virtual machines.

This is a pretty straightforward thing I’ve wanted to do for some time.

A subtle issue I ran into was the issue that Proxmox VE would sometimes unmount a GlusterFS volume and would fail to backup.

Graph of free memory on a node with a leaking piece of software.

So I’m a human, and I have outages.

This is a scary problem when you’re recovering from an outage of your database machines.

This is another one of those things that is pretty straightforward, but requires culminating information from a different sources in order to get things up and running.

This is a problem that showed itself when upgrading our Proxmox 3.2 Nodes up to Proxmox 4.

A scenario for Locomotion, that old train game from the same guy who made Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Google’s Page Speed measure is a tool to give developers feedback as to how their web page is performing.

Setting up OpenVZ containers to be able to use a FUSE filesystem is pretty simple, but it takes a bit to figure out exactly which steps you need to follow.

One of the things I’ve done for my employer is resize partitions on a few CentOS machines that already had customer data on them.

About a month ago, I shared a method for testing doctrine entities.

One of the most challenging things about starting a business is figuring out how to setup your operations.

One of the things I’m working towards with Storehouse is 100% code coverage.

I’ve been using pfSense in production for a number of years.

I rely on Zabbix to keep tabs on all of my machines and to make sure all of The Storehouse is working perfectly.

This is an issue I recently fixed on our GlusterFS installation, but I didn’t see anything directly on Google for lazy people like myself.

One of the things I’ve thought would be handy for much too long was setting up a custom template for my virtual machines.

One of the things I ran into when developing The Storehouse was the need for a task runner that fit into my weird style of development.