Hosting a service in your home or office can save you a few bucks and give you more control and privacy. The obvious problem with that is the lack of a public IP address or your ISP filtering inbound traffic. Even if you have a public IP, it might be dynamic and change regularly – […]
We use Spring Boot and gRPC on AWS ECS Fargate behind AWS Application Load Balancers. We wanted to allow the ALB to query Spring Actuator’s robust health checks. However, the default Tomcat Actuator interface adds substantial bloat to a microservice and requires a slightly more involved configuration listening on a second port. We decided to […]
Motivation I’ve suffered a home file server with an overly complicated disk storage setup for a number of years: LUKS, MD RAID, and LVM with a caching setup on top of that. It’s mostly a toy used for non-critical backups, so it was fun to tinker with. However, I’ve suffered disk losses multiple times despite […]
Overview I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my XPS 9560 – outlined in my original guide – for two years now. However, with the bulk of my work as a Java software engineer, I do large compiles dozens of times per day. I’ve recently found myself wanting for a bit more CPU and I/O horsepower than my […]
While working for a large client processing several petabytes of data per month, I had the opportunity to attack the primary ingest service with YourKit. This service is written in Scala and Java and runs on giant expensive AWS instances due mostly to the heap requirements, but also to keep plenty of CPU headroom as […]