Guess Whos Back

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Guess who’s back

Hello followers!

New year, new company, new platform. The blog is back online after over a year!

Why offline for so long you ask? Well, AWS gives a free tier of servers for a year. After a year and a bit, I started realizing that keeping a blog running without ads isn’t free, and had to pull the pin. I want to give the best experience for all of you, so instead of putting ads on the blog I just decided to shut down in protest.

So why am I back? Good news, Google Cloud Platform offers £200 in free hosting, so I’m gonna be back for a while! And once again, our tech stack is completely different!

Dear readers, our journey has taken us from our humble beginnings – a single Amazon server, 1gb ram, 0.5 cores with NGINX installed – to a 2gb ram / 1 core Docker host – we are now at the pinnacle of blog power…

Master forgive me…but we now have…

TWO 8gb ram / 2 core hosts running KUBERNETES behind Cloudflare!

We have auto deployment, helm registry, istio, Lets encrypt with ACME – jesus this tech stack is a recruiters wet dream.

For all the noobs out there, this basically means the blog should go down less than it used to (that was about every day)

In other news, I had a letter recently from David Hills asking why the blog now sends updates to his spam box in his email. Good question David!

See you in the next one.

This post is sponsored by Mountain Dew! When your firewalls are sweatin’, make sure you keep that thirst quenched! That’s why FTB says – DO THE DEW!

Posted on April 3, 2018

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