For our most recent hackfest, I did some research on a topic that had been on my list for a year. I wanted to learn more about open source server-less content management systems. This had intrigued me for years (I…
One of the final steps of any job interview with Culture Foundry is "The Talk". (We don't call it "The Talk" internally, it's just how I think of it.) "The Talk" happens with the hiring manager and often the co-founders,…
Pushing elements to the bottom of a container. This used to be a bit of a hassle before flexbox came along. You had to position the element absolutely, use negative placement, extra padding, and even after all that it all…
Last year, a cool new feature was introduced called Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) which can be used to snapshot your EBS disks. This was previously possible using a Lambda function or cron job, but if you can use the…
We have a number of clients that have infrastructure we manage on AWS. Sometimes it is servers and databases. Sometimes it is a cloudfront distribution and s3 buckets. Sometimes it is something totally different. We've moved from having everything intermixed…
It's never fun to say goodbye to a client, but any consulting company who has been around as long as Culture Foundry has experienced this. Now, just like "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", every departing client…
I attended Gluecon a few weeks ago. I've been going to this conference every couple of years since the early 2010s. It's not cheap and it's not hyper focused, but I find it valuable. The main topics are enterprisey--microservices, APIs…
Sometimes you just want to get all the records for all the domains you have hosted at Route 53. You might want to look through them for some setting or anomaly. But clicking around the AWS console is tedious. The…
We are heavy users of Trello. We are heavy automators of Trello. Previously, we had custom software which did automation of Trello tasks. Things like sorting and archiving cards, copying cards between boards and auto assignment of cards. When we…
I ran into a JSON parsing issue when using RailsAdmin 1.4.2. I was trying to search for an entity to associate it with another entity, but nothing was being returned. I looked at the request/response, and it was returning 500.…
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