Kevin Spears
Cloud, technology, homelab, and life in the Pacific Northwest.
Recent Posts
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Heel Drop in Running Shoes
One of the things I didn't know about when I began running and shopping for shoes is a small but crucial factor: heel drop—the difference in height between the heel and forefoot. While traditional running shoes often have a higher heel drop (10-12mm), lower-drop shoes (0-6mm) are gaining popularity among…
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Prison Fellowship's Migration to Cloudflare
As a long-time advocate of Cloudflare, I have relied on their services for my personal DNS hosting for several years. Their robust features and user-friendly interface have made my experience seamless and efficient. Recently, I took on the task of migrating all of Prison Fellowship's DNS to Cloudflare, which presented…
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AWS Aurora vs. Redshift for Data Warehousing
At work we are looking into moving from a data dumping ground into a real data warehouse solution. So this took me down a rabbit hole of what should we use to host this ever expanding database? Since we are hosting in AWS two commonly considered AWS services for analytical workloads are Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift. While both are powerful, they serve different purposes and are optimized for different types of workloads.
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Migrating K8s From GP2 to GP3
At work we have a Stackgres kuberentes cluster that hosts our postgres databases. This allows for high availability, easy data recovery and generally is pretty easy to manage. I admit that when I first started looking at postgres on Kubernetes I was pretty skeptical but it's honestly given me very…
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Traefik Adventures
At work I was looking into ways to decrease our AWS Public IP usage. We, along with the rest of the world were hit with monthly cost of using too many IP addresses. And it was not a total surprise since AWS announced this was coming, the price tag was…
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