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Every now and then I try to publish something that's more hardware related than my usual articles.

There's a stereotype of "It depends," being the answer that engineers always give to any question.

If you've ever been on call, you'll know the worst time to get any alerts is during the night.

In a previous article (What Are ETL / ELT Pipelines?)

Almost every enterprise system has at least one database.

When you're used to developing on Windows, you've almost certainly used IIS to serve web pages, applications, APIs etc.

Sometimes you really need to know your machine's public IP address, so you can use it in your scripts or applications.

Once you've got more than a few years' experience as an engineer, people generally expect you to start mentoring others.

If you've read my article Infra-Red Imaging With The Grid-EYE AMG8833 Sensor, you'll have read how easy it is to connect the sensor to a Raspberry Pi and to start getting Infra-Red images.

If you're using ssh and authenticating your connections with certificates, you can use a different certificate for each connection.

When you develop with Python, you normally use PyPI as the source for your package dependencies whether they're third party or your own.