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In this article I discuss a general process I used recently to migrate a large multi-terabyte Heroku Postgres Database from the Heroku Platform to Amazon Aurora Postgres on a live Heroku based application architecture with near zero downtime and builtin failover during the process.
In this article I demonstrate how to setup a log shipped replica of a Postgres v11 master database creating a warm standby replica for High Availability and read scaling utilizing the WAL-E program. WAL-E is a Python based program designed to facilitate performing continuous archiving of PostgreSQL WAL files and base backups.
In this article I discuss how to deploy a simple Flask Todo app complete with a PostgreSQL database to the AWS cloud on a Amazon Linux 2 AMI utilizing Nginx web server and uWSGI application server
In this article I walk through the process of setting up an automated process utilizing AWS S3, Lambda, and Elastic Transcoder to embed a watermark in to videos initiated by uploading to an S3 bucket.
This article reviews common text manipulation utility programs available within the Linux operating system. The article is chock full of discussions paired with simple examples to demonstrate the usefulness of several text utility programs available to Linux users.
In this How To article I demonstrate using the find command in Linux and, through the use of some practical examples, I aim to help the reader become efficient when working with the Linux file system as well provide building blocks for further experimentation.