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AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality. It allows to build and operate sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability.

Thoughts

Prove me Wrong and I'll Buy You a Pint!

Why I put a bug bounty on my personal errors. How actively looking for disconfirming evidence allows me to learn cheap. And why you should too.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 10 min read
Thoughts

Building Software for the Modern Era

The not-too-serious but absolutely foolproof missing manual for modern engineering practices: From understanding the problem to declaring success in eleven (not so) easy steps.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 7 min read
Thoughts

A Homage to a Mentor Who Never Knew He Was One

Numerous people have shaped my life. Only very few as much as a key mentor of mine. Who never knew he was one. This is for him.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 8 min read
Thoughts

The Power of Mentoring and You

Always wondered what mentoring is all about? Here's what a mentor does and where to find one. And why you should have a mentor too.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 9 min read
Bash

A Basic Directories Diff

Need to find out if two directories contain the same files? Here's how to do it in a basic fashion. As a Github Gist.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 2 min read
Cybersecurity

Keeping cURL's Hands Out of the Cookie Jar

Using cURL and having to store cookies between requests but don't want to save them to file? Here's how to keep them purely in memory.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 3 min read
Thoughts

My Reading List

Want to know what makes me tick? Then a selection of books I've read in the past should give you an insight into what has shaped and influenced my thinking.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 11 min read
Cybersecurity

Ready to Use OpenVPN Servers in AWS For Everyone

Reclaim some lost privacy and security by using a fully automated OpenVPN server solution in AWS! Readily available as a one-stop Terraform module on GitHub.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 14 min read
Thoughts

Why I Focus on Not Building Things (as an Architect)

Stop building. Start Reusing. Get some Sellotape and get going. Because the best system I've ever built is the system I've never built!

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 6 min read
Kubernetes

Build Your Own Helm Chart Repository in S3 — With Auto-Generated User Documentation!

Helm chart repositories for everyone. With auto-generated clear instructions on how to add, search, and remove the repository. Right from the repository. Because user documentation matters. Readily available as a Terraform module on GitHub.

Dominic Dumrauf Dominic Dumrauf 10 min read
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