David J Eddy

AWS Certified (x4), Automated Testing / Continuous Integration / Delivery / Deployment (CI/CDs), Cloud, Containers, Dev(Sec)Ops, Software Engineer.

Internet Joined on Sep 8, 2017 me@davidjeddy.com https://blog.davidjeddy.com/

Education

BFA from IADT Tampa, 4* AWS Certifications

Work

Infrastructure Engineer

David J Eddy

Oct 28 '21

My thoughts on the HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification

#hashicorp #terraform #sre #certifications

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How I got AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in 2 weeks ☁

All the associate exams cost $150 USD. aws.amazon.com/certifi...

Sep 20 '20

Serving EC2 traffic over HTTPS

Good article Mayank! Nice that you provide multiple solutions...

Jun 12 '20

Using Composer with WordPress for easy Deployments

Nice to see some PHP content here on dev.to. Keep up the good...

Apr 29 '20

Is a Redis ORM a Horrible Idea?

"...Our primary database (MySQL) simply cannot keep up..." My...

Apr 14 '20

Learn a New Language: Ruby or Go?

I feel like this is a more a question of what is the right ...

Apr 9 '20

Tell us what your top unpopular tech opinion is 😈

There is not such thing as Jr Dev Ops.

Apr 8 '20

How does deployment work at your organization?

developer commits change to feature branch locally develop...

Apr 6 '20

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David J Eddy

Apr 1 '20

How to: AWS Service Endpoints via Terraform for fun and profit

#terraform #aws #devops #cloud

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David J Eddy

Nov 27 '19

How To: Database clustering with MariaDB and Galera.

#howto #database #mariadb #clustering

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David J Eddy

Sep 25 '19

How to: Delete a stubborn Kubernetes namespaces.

#kubernetes #operations #howto

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David J Eddy

Aug 14 '19

Trial: 30 days with VueJs

#discuss #vue #opinion #trial

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David J Eddy

Aug 1 '19

Intro: k3s, a less needy Kubernetes,

#kubernetes #iot #edge

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David J Eddy

Jul 30 '19

Intro: Hashicorp `Packer`

#automation #hashicorp #packer #devops

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David J Eddy

Jul 28 '19

What do you prefer: general all-in-one tools or focused single domain tools?

#discuss #bestpractices #webdev

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David J Eddy

Jul 15 '19

Whats your daily tool chain these days?

#discuss

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David J Eddy

Jun 25 '19

Tagging with Terraform

#aws #devops #terraform #howto

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David J Eddy

Jun 14 '19

10 years of web development; 10 life lessons.

#webdev #career #learning #reflection

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David J Eddy

Jun 2 '19

FIX: Terraform + AWS: InvalidVPCNetworkStateFault

#terraform #aws #iac

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David J Eddy

May 23 '19

Terraform 0.12 General Release

#terraform #cloud

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David J Eddy

Apr 28 '19

Project Release: Docker + AWS + Selenium + Terraform. Get it up and running.

#docker #aws #selenium #terraform

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David J Eddy

Mar 29 '19

How To: Upgrade WSL Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

#windows #linux #wsl #howto

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David J Eddy

Mar 22 '19

Opinion: Architect VS Engineer VS Developer

#discuss #culture #opinion

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David J Eddy

Feb 25 '19

IBM has released Unit Testing for Mainframes.

#news #development #unittest

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David J Eddy

Jan 18 '19

Ever miss the forest for the trees?

#cli #linux #tools

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David J Eddy

Jan 11 '19

How long until we can all access satellite data? Not long if AWS has its way...

#aws #space #wtf

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David J Eddy

Jan 10 '19

How to fix "failed to delete stack: Role ... is invalid or cannot be assumed" in AWS CloudFormation

#todayilearned #aws #devops #quicktip

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3 min read

David J Eddy

Jan 3 '19

What is your biggest 'red flag' when interviewing?

#discuss #career #interview

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David J Eddy

Dec 26 '18

My First 12 hours with Ruby

#ruby #opinion #programming

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David J Eddy

Dec 7 '18

90% of my job is...

#discuss #fun #simple #daily

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David J Eddy

Nov 30 '18

Run Commands on a Remote Machine via SSH

#devops #howto #terminal #ssh

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David J Eddy

Nov 27 '18

Using `shellcheck` to lint your bash/sh scripts.

#bash #devops #linting #bestpractice

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David J Eddy

Nov 26 '18

How to use Golang's "go get" from behind a proxy.

#devops #go #howto #networking

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David J Eddy

Nov 16 '18

What’s the difference: A/B Testing VS Blue/Green Deployment?

#deployment #testing #general

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David J Eddy

Nov 15 '18

Windows 10 WSL Ubuntu 18.04 proxy configuration for apt.

#windows #linux #apt #configuration

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David J Eddy

Nov 13 '18

Is HTTP/2 really worth it?

#devops #performance #nginx #gatling

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David J Eddy

Nov 8 '18

Passing Data Into Gatling from the Command Line

#devops #testing #gatling #howto

4 min read

David J Eddy

Nov 8 '18

Set up Wordpress using Ansible and Terraform

#webdev #ansible #terraform #wordpress

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David J Eddy

Nov 7 '18

Just how effective is web server caching? Very.

#performance #nginx #webdev #caching

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David J Eddy

Nov 1 '18

What's the difference: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment.

#discuss #devops

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David J Eddy

Oct 23 '18

Run Linux GUI apps on Windows 10

#windows #linux #gui #software

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David J Eddy

Oct 22 '18

Achievement Unlocked! All AWS Associate + Practitioner Certifications obtained.

#aws #certifications #lifegoals

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David J Eddy

Oct 17 '18

All Day DevOps virtual conference going on today.

#devops #cloudnative #culturalshift #sre

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David J Eddy

Oct 15 '18

PHP 5 End of Life is upon us; why you should care.

#help #php #security #endoflife

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David J Eddy

Oct 9 '18

What are your favorite VueJS libraries?

#discuss #javascript #webdev #vue

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David J Eddy

Oct 5 '18

How do you do random?

#showdev #fun #webdev #discuss

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David J Eddy

Oct 4 '18

Migrate from AWS EC2 to Lightsail

#aws #cloud #ec2 #lightsail

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David J Eddy

Sep 28 '18

The case against Terraform to prevent vendor lock-in.

#terraform #iac #infrastructure #designpatterns

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David J Eddy

Aug 2 '18

5 PHP Tools to make your life more enjoyable.

#php #tool #productivity #codequality

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David J Eddy

Jul 9 '18

Gatling, a load testing tool with a difference.

#automation #loadtesting #stresstesting

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David J Eddy

Apr 5 '18

How to shrink your Docker images.

#docker

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David J Eddy

Mar 11 '18

Tutorial on using headless Chrome in a container for End-To-End user acceptance testing

#docker #chrome #user #testing

1 min read

David J Eddy

Jan 10 '18

Never run a migration again using PHPs Composer

#php #composer #automation

1 min read

David J Eddy

Dec 18 '17

TIL: JSON.stringify() can do formatted output.

#todayilearned #javascript #console #browser

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David J Eddy

Nov 30 '17

Questions to Determine Team Fit-ability.

#teamhiringculture

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David J Eddy

Nov 28 '17

Explain how Angular 1 works like I'm 5

#discuss #angular1 #javascript #explainlikeimfive

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David J Eddy

Nov 27 '17

CLI tool to visually see disk usage in Linux and OSX

#osx #cli #utility

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David J Eddy

Oct 30 '17

Git log a range of lines of a file

#git

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David J Eddy

Oct 17 '17

VIM paste as expected

#vimterminal

1 min read

David J Eddy

Jan 19 '17

Hi, I'm David J Eddy

#introductions

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