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How To: Sort a List of Terraform Objects by Attribute

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:45:42 -0400

This is a short tutorial on how to sort a list of Terraform objects by a specific attribute, which isn’t built-in to Terraform. This example will sort AWS VPC subnets based on their amount of available IP addresses.

How To: Set Up an Apache Proxy Cache for Artifactory

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is a tutorial on how to set up an Apache reverse proxy for caching content from JFrog Artifactory. I had to learn how to do this for work to lessen the request load on the origin Artifactory server, and improve performance overall.

How To: Embed Streamable.com Videos in Hugo

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:27:23 -0400

Hey, this is a quick little tutorial on how to embed Streamable videos to your Hugo website, like this:

How To: Build Unity Projects on the Command Line

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:49:28 -0400

There weren’t a lot of online resources on how to build Unity games from the command line, which was surprising. This would be useful for automating builds, meaning that you don’t need to manually interact with the Unity Editor if you only need to compile your game. If you have a large project, not having to load the Editor is a massive time saver. This can all be done through Unity’s command line arguments.

How To: Save $1,000+ on your AWS Bill

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Cost of the Cloud# One of my recent projects was to migrate some testing servers from on-premises to Amazon EC2. There were valid reasons for doing so, with the most pressing being to offload the testing workload to the cloud. Testing isn’t run 24/7, so those machines don’t need to be online all the time taking up server space. They can be dynamically provisioned en masse on AWS, and terminated once testing is complete.