A benchmark of AWS EFS
Amazon Web Services Elastic File System has been to my knowledge the service to have the longest beta testing period: reason for this may be that not as many …
Francesco Gualazzi
Infrastructure-aware software engineer
AWS IAM policy to let users manage their own MFA
If you’re an AWS administrator you know that managing web console security is pretty tough unless you know what you want and you know what you’re doing. So if …
Implement a generic data list structure
As a coding challenge I was asked to provide a generic list implementation using a language of my choice and using only primitive types, avoiding the use of …
Virtualize an old Windows PC
A friend asked me if I was able to get back working a Windows 98 PC he had in his house; I have never done it so I said “sure I can!” just to have the …
Golang Message Queue: a simple TCP message bus
[TL;DR] I wrote a Pub/Sub message queue in Go, branch “master” is stable but missing some interesting feature like distributed memory synchronization between …
My first Golang web project is online
It is true: I fell in love with Go, not because I love Google and his products, but because it really fits my ideology of simplicity and power in a programming …
GlusterFS: is it suitable for me?
During the last years I’ve been experimenting with GlusterFS and his functionalities as distributed object store; a lot has changed in the software, overall …
Set up a private master/slave DNS using BIND
One of the very basic need of any startup is setting up a LAN in the workspace and configuring the Internet most used service: DNS. Relying on a public DNS may …
Happy birthday server!
In an attempt to make someone happier I wrote a script to notify a server admin when his child has gone through a year of uptime 🙂 Platform suggestions …
A smooth migration to the cloud
The last weekend my colleagues and I had a nice time moving an existing application from a bare-metal infrastructure to AWS. I would like to share some of the …