dataFaber 5.0

Category: DevOps

Predicting AWS price reductions

I’m working on a disaster-recovery strategy at my day job, and AWS is one of the platforms I’m considering: the thinking is to have some capacity available on AWS, perhaps just a database…

Is AWS right for personal and hobby servers?

If you’re like me, you have a number of personal projects and applications that you host somewhere. For example, I host: my own SMTP and IMAP servers DNS servers a web-based RSS reader…

CrashPlan Dashboard – Shows the status of your CrashPlan backups

Do you regularly back up your computers? I do, and I use CrashPlan for my backups. It’s an excellent service which has saved me multiple times. However, there is a shortcoming: the backup…

Startup Scripts for Java-based Services

I’ve written a lot of scripts to start Java-based applications as services on Linux, and I’ve come to realize that the most reliable way to do it is to simply take advantage of…

Jenkins Show Advanced Settings

Near the end of the day At first it seemed a good idea: just upgrade a couple of Jenkins plugin, then go home for the day. 15 minutes after the upgrade and your…