November 6, 2026
Out of disk space
I run a handful of virtual servers hosting a hodgepodge of personal web apps, including this blog. Last night, I wrote a small feature for a meal-planning app and pushed the code to production. The...
November 8, 2022
How to Cloud - The many ways to Scale a website
Vertically scale the website - increase the server capacity by adding more memory, CPUs (or vCPUs), storage and bandwidth - no longer recommended with cloud computing. Deploy the app to Elastic...
August 20, 2022
Learning ML - First attempt at basic linear regression
Laugh all you want, but if the machines are going to turn us all into batteries, I want to know how they did it.
August 5, 2022
How to Cloud - Spin up a Well-Architected RDS Instance
Launching a Mysql instance on AWS is easy. The AWS console offers a step-by-step roadmap to create an instance. Additionally, articles like this and this show you how. That's is all well and good but...
July 10, 2022
How to Cloud - Instantly Set up a VPC for public and private traffic
In this article, we'll create a new VPC from scratch. We'll divvy up the network into two sub-networks or subnets, one public and one private in two different availability zones. Our public subnet...