Ryan Harrison

If your code calls LocalDateTime.now() or Instant.now() directly, you’re stuck with whatever the system clock says.

If you’re on Windows, Git has almost certainly been silently messing with your line endings since the day you installed it.

I’ve put together a reference site for engineering best practices, available at guidelines.ryanharrison.co.uk.

This site is built with Jekyll.

A junior developer recently came to me for help with one of those classic issues which appears on a remote dev environment, but for whatever reason can’t (at least easily) be replicated locally.

So it turns out that Oracle Cloud (OCI) offers an extremely generous free tier, and not many people seem to know about it.

Some quick high levels notes on Kafka vs MQ.

Most Kafka design and configuration choices are use case dependent and come with trade-offs, so it’s hard to define any best usage rules.

Environment Variables Set path to binaries export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/kafka/common/bin Add Kerberos / SASL config options (if required) export KAFKA_OPTS="-Djava.security.krb5.conf/etc/krb5.conf -Dzookeeper.sasl.client.userna…

Part 1 - Logging In Part 2 - Securing Login Part 3 - Installing a Firewall Part 4 - Setup Nginx Web Server Part 5 - Install Git, Ruby and Jekyll Part 6 - HTTPS With Let’s Encrypt Part 7 - Email Forwarding with Postfix Part 8 - Sending Email Through Gmail…