Ian Duffy

RTE Player, like most Irish broadcasters, is geo locked to Ireland.

You’ve just pushed code that took down production.

You’ve sent what you thought was a clear message, only to discover it was confusing.

The engineering mindset is fantastic at finding edge cases and hunting bugs.

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/log/application.log' You stare at the error on your screen, and frustration builds as the red text blinks at you.

In 2019, before COVID changed how we all work, I accepted a fully remote job.

TL;DR: I’ve created an automated solution for tracking Google reviews using AWS services.

Hey there!

If you’re juggling work and personal GitHub accounts, switching between them manually can get frustrating.

When my wife, Ciara, told me she wanted to start a blog, my initial reaction was, “Oh no, here we go!”

I have a sit/stand desk.

Smart heating systems enable you to control your home’s heating and hot water from more than just your boiler programmer.

Disclaimer: The following setup is for personal distribution purposes only.

Lighting is core to any smart home system.

With Docker Desktop changing their licencing many folks are in need of a replacement.

In today’s world, it is normal to see applications running on Kubernetes and exposed with ingress nginx.

ScrapingHub is a distributed company that builds tooling and a platform to extract data from the web.

When doing development locally it might be necessary to access the application(s) using a virtual host (vhost) and/or HTTPS.

At Kafka Summit this year, Confluent announced consumption based billing for their Kafka Cloud offering, making it the cheapest and easiest way to get a Kafka Cluster.

Many organisations look towards a multiple account strategy with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide administrative isolation between workloads, limited visibility and discoverability of workloads, isolation to minimize blast radius, management of AWS li…

AWS offer a managed ElasticSearch service.

In my previous blog post Azure bug bounty Pwning Red Hat Enterprise Linux I detailed how it was possible to get administrative access to the Red Hat Update Infrastructure consumed by Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines booted from the Microsoft Azure

TL;DR Acquired administrator level access to all of the Microsoft Azure managed Red Hat Update Infrastructure that supplies all the packages for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances booted from the Azure marketplace.

resource "null_resource" "hello_world" { provisioner "local-exec" { command = "echo 'Hello World'" } } Interested in automation and the HashiCorp suite of tools?