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A quick guide on how to stream AWS Step Function logs to AWS CloudWatch.
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Anyone with a moderate level of AWS experience will have learned that Amazon offers more …
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Apache Solr is an excellent full text index search engine based on Lucene. Solr is …
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Over the last few weeks I have been building a bunch of Debian packages (aka debs) for a …
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Vodafone in Australia offers a pretty good mobile data plan - 5Gb for $39.95 per month. …
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Update 2013: Some comments suggest that Gigabyte are now using 7zip, not rar as their …
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Not long before my old laptop got to the end of it usable lifespan I started playing with …
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About 7 weeks ago I bought a Nokia N95 and I love it. I considered the Neo 1973 from …
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I have a few clients running IPCop firewall appliance boxes, but for more complex setups …