Presuppositions…

Many will rightly ask “what’s up with the religious content in your posts”? I say rightly because it’s abnormal these days as society in general avoids discussions of politics or religion to keep away from areas that cause conflict. In many contexts this seemingly works well in the immediate term, but everyone addresses life via …

Nginx and HAproxy – PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

I recently switched over an Nginx server so that it was being accessed via an HAproxy tcp connection that was now sending proxy protocol information. When I did this I started to get PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR issues from my browser. While it seems simple, the fix is to ensure that your nginx listener has the proxy_protocol configuration …

Velocity – The Sirens Call and Security

Over the past several years there has been a move to the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model. This was thanks to Google’s sharing of operational experiences through their book Site Reliability Engineering – How Google Runs Production Systems. Now, there is no shortage of SRE jobs wherever you look. The ultimate goal of this move …