Author: jcianci12
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Managing Route53 DNS Access with IAM: A Granular Approach
Introduction When managing DNS records in AWS Route53, it’s crucial to follow the principle of least privilege. This article demonstrates how to create an IAM policy that allows…
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Preserving Critical Code in Git History
The Problem In large codebases with multiple developers, critical code sections can be accidentally overwritten or removed during merges, refactoring, or cleanup operations. When this happens, it can…
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Migrating Windows Server 2019 to Dissimilar Hardware. The easy pathway.
Moving a server operating system to entirely new hardware can be daunting, especially when the hardware is significantly different from the original. This post details our experience migrating…
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Drone CI with Docker Compose – Beginner’s Guide 🍒
What is Drone CI? Drone is a modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) platform that uses Docker containers to run your build and deployment steps. It’s lightweight, easy to…
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Understanding JWT Token Transformation: Bridging OAuth2 and PostgREST
TLDR: Here is the github repo to pull and try (you will need your own oauth2 provider like google etc) https://github.com/jcianci12/Client-Server-postgrest-jwt-demo 🍒 In modern web applications, authentication and…
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Diagnosing and Fixing High CPU Usage in Authentik Stack
The Problem Recently, we noticed that our Authentik authentication stack was experiencing unusually high CPU usage, with the authentik-server-1 container consuming up to 178.62% CPU. This was causing performance issues…
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Setting Up PurelyMail in Outlook for iPhone (IMAP/SMTP)
Step 1: Open Outlook and Add a New Account Step 2: Select IMAP (Manual Setup) Step 3: Enter Incoming Mail Server (IMAP) Settings Step 4: Enter Outgoing Mail…
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Setting Up PurelyMail in Outlook for PC (IMAP/SMTP)
Step 1: Open Outlook and Add a New Account Step 2: Choose IMAP Account Type Step 3: Enter Incoming Mail Server (IMAP) Settings Step 4: Enter Outgoing Mail…
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Understanding JWT Authentication with PostgREST
TLDR: Here is the example you can spin up in docker to test: https://github.com/jcianci12/jwt-postgrest-example Introduction PostgREST is a powerful tool that automatically creates RESTful APIs from PostgreSQL databases.…