Tag: development

24 Sep, 2019
How Architecture Improved My Coding Skills
We all our skills in different ways. The path to becoming a senior engineer is never the same. This is an example of how mine involved writing less code than most.

20 May, 2019
What Does it Mean to be a Technology Consultant
If you've ever been curious about what it means to be a consultant, this post is for you!

23 Sep, 2015
Ansible State of Mind, Part 1: Automate First
If it’s not automated, it’s not done. Changing your approach from “implement now and automate later” to “implement means automate” will take you a long way down the road to Continuous Delivery. The benefits of IT automation are fairly well understood – lower costs, higher reliability, and better performance....

28 Aug, 2015
Evolving in Place
A systematic approach to replacing old technologies and applications with new can save you time and money, improve continuity of operations, and allow you to keep up with your competitors. I often work with clients that have dated technologies and infrastructures, stuff that was modern and based on (mostly) good...

03 Feb, 2015
SSH Connection Multiplexing, Port Forwarding, and SOCK Proxy
By Rob Giseburt Introduction This is the third part of a series about using SSH with bastion hosts. You may wish to read the other parts if you haven’t already: Part 1: Using SSH Through A Bastion Host Transparently Part 2: Using SSH Bastion Hosts With AWS and Dynamically Locating Them With...

14 Jan, 2015
Using SSH Through A Bastion Host Transparently
By Rob Giseburt A Bastion host is a special purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks. The computer generally hosts a single application, for example a proxy server, and all other services are removed or limited to reduce the threat to the computer. It...