DevOps & Infrastructure

Stateful sessions on Cloudflare Workers beat JWT sprawl when your admin needs context and data persistence.

Cloudflare Workers beat Lambda on latency, cold starts, and pricing - I'm migrating production apps to the edge.

Build your own Wufoo with TypeScript and AWS - serverless forms that store data and send alerts automatically.

EFS unlocks 512MB+ file storage for Lambda, but connection errors have common fixes you should know.

Pre-signed S3 URLs let users upload files directly from browsers without touching your backend.

GitLab CI can trust private Docker registries with self-signed certs - here's the dind config.

Private Docker registries with self-signed SSL require special config - here's how to make Docker trust them.

Switching from Bitnami AMIs to custom AWS setups gave me flexibility but required rethinking WordPress ops.

Missing ljavavm12 library during Oracle installation? A simple file copy solves the error.

Ubuntu-centric GitLab docs don't work on RHEL 5. Here's how to force it into submission.

Hard drive failures took the site down. New RAID array means significantly better uptime ahead.

mod_pagespeed and CloudFlare combine to deliver faster page loads and stronger reliability.

Converting Apache mod_php to FastCGI aims for better performance and scalability.

Sparkred partnership highlights SoftLayer's infrastructure advantages for tech-forward companies.

Co-presenting on load testing and performance analytics using JMeter and New Relic at the Boston Web Performance Group Meetup, September 18th, 2012.

Apache Performance presentation at Boston Web Performance Meetup covers optimization techniques for web servers.

Benchmark test reveals rsync outpaces scp by 2-10x on file transfers - practical performance comparison for deployment workflows.

MySQL.com security breach exposes critical vulnerabilities in web infrastructure.

Wireless networks expose personal data constantly. A VPN encrypts traffic and protects privacy everywhere.

Spam bot ran English through a thesaurus to dodge filters - "beneficial perform" and "possess" exposed the trick.