Christopher Simpson

Christopher Simpson

Interested in: Building, async communication, open source history, teaching, learning, and business. Note: I struggle with spelling please feel free to message with corrections.
23
Mar
Getting started with Java and Scala projects using Maven, intellij

Getting started with Java and Scala projects using Maven, intellij

Coming from a Python/Php and/or systm administration bacground with no little to Java experience is daunting. * POM? What
3 min read
23
Mar
Building Non Root Docker Images OpenShift

Building Non Root Docker Images OpenShift

* Bummer: You can rarely use an existing Dockerhub image and run it on OpenShift out the box. * Although with good
3 min read
21
Jan
Understanding Kubernetes

Understanding Kubernetes

With containers, docker , Kubernetes etc I always have trouble working out: * Where should I put my database? * How do I
4 min read
20
Dec
Open Banking Project API Set-up Locally on IntelliJ

Open Banking Project API Set-up Locally on IntelliJ

Get the OBP-API codebase mkdir -p ~/obpapi-demo-install cd obpapi-demo-install/ git clone https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API.git cd OBP-API/ # Create
2 min read
13
Dec
Installing Rocketchat Self Hosting Debian 9.6 (Ubuntu) with Docker

Installing Rocketchat Self Hosting Debian 9.6 (Ubuntu) with Docker

https://rocket.chat/docs/installation/manual-installation/debian/ Follow standard install steps First follow the Rocket install guide for Debian. Install
1 min read
12
Dec
Scaling WordPress & WooCommerce For Dragons' Den

Scaling WordPress & WooCommerce For Dragons' Den

How we prepare your website for a major TV screening We successfully hosted comapny: "The Sweet Beet" during
3 min read
09
Dec
Backup a server to gcloud storage using rclone / rsync

Backup a server to gcloud storage using rclone / rsync

Install rclone on the source server: curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash The rest of the guide will
2 min read
03
Dec
High Availability with HAproxy , Apache2 and MariaDB Galera Cluster Ubuntu 18.04 LTS & Centos 7

High Availability with HAproxy , Apache2 and MariaDB Galera Cluster Ubuntu 18.04 LTS & Centos 7

In this post we create a highly available web & database cluster using a compbination of: * MariaDB Galera Cluster of
9 min read
25
Nov
Learning Golang

Learning Golang

What's Go Lang for? Introduction to Go video Go is for * Scale * Large distributed systems, connecting thousands of
2 min read
15
Oct
Move Site From wpengine, how to migrate site

Move Site From wpengine, how to migrate site

The steps to migrate a website away from wpengine and move to another web host. 1 Perform a full site
3 min read
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