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Build a fully automated AI blogging pipeline via Gemini CLI, GitHub Actions, Docker, S3, and CloudFront. The bot writes, builds, tests, and deploys one production blog post per day without manual intervention.

The Gemini protocol replaces the ad-heavy, JavaScript-driven web with a minimal, privacy-focused alternative built around static content and mandatory TLS. Learn Gemini’s architecture and deploy a Gemini server on Ubuntu with AWS, GMID, TLS, and systemd.

Build a lightweight capacity planning model in Python Pandas using flow diagrams, throughput estimates, and GROUP BY operations to estimate CPU requirements and infrastructure cost. Apply Operations Research concepts to size a simple web...

Install OpenDaylight on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Perform Java setup, JAVA_HOME configuration, Karaf binary download, controller start, and DLUX enablement. Discover installation traps around Java compatibility and OpenDaylight release packaging.

Deploy OpenDaylight and Open vSwitch in a cloud-based layer two environment to steer traffic dynamically with OpenFlow rules. Bypass deep packet inspection for egress traffic while preserving ingress inspection through SDN-based flow manipulation.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker Notebook Instances provide fully managed Jupyter Notebooks, tailored for Data Science and Machine Learning (ML) use cases. These notebooks allow Data Scientists and ML Engineers to explore, operationalize and...

Relive the glory days of dumb terminals with your thousand dollar cellphone! Programmers used terminals, decades ago, to log into and execute commands on remote computer systems. The terminal provided a screen and keyboard to computer scientists...

Internet Service Providers (ISP), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Data Center Engineers and Academics use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to tailor and automate computer networks. Professionals and Academics use ODL to execute several use-cases:...

Network Engineers use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to craft, deploy and manage interesting virtual network services. Internet Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers, Data Center Engineers and Academics use ODL to address the following...

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elasticsearch service provides GROUP BY operations via the aggregations, or AGGS, Application Programming Interface (API). GROUP BY and AGGS operations provide syntax to collapse rows with similar values into summary...

Operational document stores require backups for disaster recovery and data migration. Elasticsearch uses the term snapshot for their backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a fully managed Elasticsearch service that includes both automatic...

Elastic Architects designed the distributed Elasticsearch platform to follow NoSql principles. In the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) world, SQL databases use GROUP BY syntax to group rows with similar values into...

In this HOWTO, I will describe the process to connect an Ubuntu EC2 instance to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided Elasticsearch Service via the boto3 Python library. This blog updates my incredibly popular original post on this topic which...

This blog post describes how to configure Flask to emit form data to your own personal Gmail account. You don't need to use Gmail, in fact, you can configure Flask to send data to any email account you have access to. This architecture uses...

InfluxDB provides an exciting Time Series database with tons of industry momentum and enthusiasm behind it. InfluxData, the parent company that distributes the product overhauled the classic InfluxDB service with their new InfluxDB 2.0 offering....

Fastai provides helper functions on top of Pytorch to help us wrangle, clean, and process data. In this HOWTO we will accomplish the following: Deploy an AWS g3.8xlarge instance Compile and install NVIDIA drivers on our g3.8xlarge instance Use a...

In this blog post you will deploy your own personal Kraken terminal using the InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 platform. With this terminal you can quickly filter data, plot data and apply math. The first section provides a Hello World project to get up and...

Flask, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM and S3 enable massively scalable web database applications. Flask provides a simple, Pythonic Model View Controller (MVC) framework to develop the application logic. Lambda and API Gateway provide pay-per-use...

I deployed my first web database application back in 2002 thanks to the seminal O'Reilly book Web Database Applications with PHP and Mysql by David Lane and Hugh E. Williams. In the past sixteen years, the industry developed tons of frameworks...

OpenDaylight allows cloud engineers to programmatically deploy, configure and control virtual network services. As written on the OpenDaylight website, ODL helps Internet Service Providers, Academics and Cloud Service Providers to enable the...

In this HOWTO, I will demonstrate a very quick and dirty method to transcribe customer service voicemails to text and emit the text to an Elasticsearch NoSQL document store. Once in Elasticsearch, you can search the voicemails for Keywords and...

Introduction OpenDaylight provides a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller that allows network engineers to programmatically direct network services via a Representational state transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). When I...

Part Two of this HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your S3 hosted website with HTTPS. If you haven't completed part one yet, be sure to click here. Once you complete this HOWTO, you will have a secure website, that Google approves, as seen in the...

This HOWTO demonstrates how to secure your Simple Storage Service (S3) hosted website via Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). While the S3 Representational State Transfer (REST) enpoint supports native HTTPS, an S3 bucket configured to...

In this HOWTO, I will demonstrate how to easily integrate the Google reCAPTCHA service into a Flask web application using Flask-WTF. The following cartoon depicts the end result. A Flask application server provides a simple (beautified) survey to...