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Best Practices for Integrating Solution Engineering Feedback

Best Practices for Leveraging Insights from Sales Engineers in Product Management and Engineering Presales Engineers are known by many names, including, but not limited to, Solution Engineering, Solution Architects, Sales Engineering, and so on. In this article, I have opted to use Solution Engineering as a catch-all …

Insights from the AWS summit Berlin 2024

General Personal Thoughts AI

As I walked into the AWS Summit in Berlin, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The atmosphere was electric, with attendees buzzing about the latest innovations in cloud computing and AI. As someone who follows the industry closely, I was eager to see what the summit was going to present. As …

Managing Stress and Fostering Creativity in Your Startup Team

General Startup Life Team Health PreSales Personal Thoughts

As a manager at a startup, you know that stress and creativity are intertwined. While a moderate amount of stress can be motivating, unchecked stress can stifle innovation and hinder growth. As your team scales, it's crucial to strike a balance between these two forces. Understanding Stress in Startups Stress, much …

Multi-Cloud DNS delegated Sub domain with Terraform Cloud

Cloud Automation General Terraform Multi-Cloud Terraform

DNS in a multi-cloud world As companies transition to multi-cloud deployments, creating a common way to deploy solutions has become a requirement, this is also easily achieved by using Terraform to create your immutable infrastructure. The challenge you face is that the infrastructure in a cloud deployment is dynamic …

Setting up GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS for Terraform Cloud

General IAC Terraform

The getting started guides for using Terraform with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-on-gcp-with-terraform All suggest using code like this to provide credentials 1// Configure the Google Cloud provider 2provider "google" { 3 credentials = …

Meteor User Seed

Meteor Programming

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working. One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding. I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation. You add users to the users …

Great Script to tidy Up our Photos

Ruby OpenSource Personal Thoughts SystemAdmin Tweets

I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill. they were either just to difficult or completely wrong. i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/ What a gem. if you can install ruby on …

Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser

Personal Thoughts OpenSource Powershell Programming SystemAdmin

I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers. They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large number of the copy …

Bongo Admin UI Images

General Bongo rPath Developing Programming

I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it. Please let me know what you think.

Building the new Bongo Admin UI

General Bongo rPath Developing Programming

A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards. We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with. I stared porting the …