If good housekeeping isn’t applied when working with a database like Active Directory (AD) overtime objects can become obsolete and stale, and ultimately need to be removed. Especially when it comes to user account objects for security reasons. I’m going to share here how I’ve automated the process for finding and highlighting/removing unused or stale… Read More »
Here is a curated list of some familiar businesses who have active tech engineering blogs that I like to check at least once a week. They help to keep me updated on the latest engineering and development trends. These company engineering blogs will inspire you to build great engineering infrastructure and improve your own engineering projects. … Read More »
I love free learning resources and I recently discovered Packt publishing give away a free full ebook everyday from their massive library that covers everything software development and system administration to databases and agile/lean. The trouble is that with everything I’ve got going on these days I totally forgot check it one day and missed… Read More »
I was playing about with a small Vagrant lab on my Windows 10 computer and using vscode as my code editor when I ran into an issue when trying to run a bash script on my Linux system. (I’ll cover a quick start guide to Vagrant for local test and dev environments soon) It was just a… Read More »
Virtualenv is a tool that lets you create isolated environments for your Python projects. It addresses the issues of application dependencies and versions of software for each of your Python projects. Imagine that you had one project that required v1 of the Foo library and then another project that required v2 of the same library.… Read More »
During my studies for the AWS Solutions Architect exam I’ve came across a couple of Amazon services that look very interesting. Two of these being, Rekognition, Amazons deep learning-based image and video analysis, and Polly, turning text into lifelike speech using deep learning. Using these services could make for a Ring type doorbell/security monitoring device… Read More »
This is a basic walk through of getting a project under version control using Git, from the installation of git, to initializing a project, adding and committing files to pushing to a remote repository. As well as cloning an existing project to start working with. Installation: Head to https://git-scm.com/downloads here you’ll be be able to download the… Read More »
When it comes to source code management (SCM), Git is now the de facto standard and a major component in agile development workflows. One of the key features of Git, is that it is by nature distributed rather than centralized. However, when collaborating with others a central shared remote repository such as Github and Gitlab… Read More »
This week I attended the DevOps Glasgow meetup entitled “Episode 5. Hashicorp”, here we were introduced to Terraform, Hashicorp’s tool for implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), by Hashicorp engineer Radek Simko. Here is the link to Radek’s slide deck. This was my first time seeing Terraform put to work. I’ve been a fan of an other… Read More »