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Pixelite Software

@pixelite_
 Wellington, New Zealand
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Joined January 2012
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New post: "Listing Fastly users that can access a particular service" ift.tt/BzciekC
Listing Fastly users that can access a particular service

Listing Fastly users that can access a particular service

I was recently to supply a list of non-superuser user accounts that could access a given Service ID in Fastly, and what their role and permission was. This can be achieved with the Fastly CLI and...

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New post: "Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government - 2022 edition" ift.tt/c3mbWXa
Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government - 2022 edition

Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government - 2022 edition

Have you ever wondered how popular Drupal is in your local state and at the Australian Federal Government level?

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New post: "Choosing the right Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for your workloads" ift.tt/EvazxjV
Choosing the right Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for your workloads

Choosing the right Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for your workloads

The main issue was narrowing down the enormous list of instance types so they would be suitable to run our workloads.

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New post: "Bulk import ACL entries into a Fastly ACL" ift.tt/TqjWcSt
Bulk import ACL entries into a Fastly ACL

Bulk import ACL entries into a Fastly ACL

How to automate adding large amounts of ACL entries to a Fastly ACL

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New post: "Dockerfile best practices - stories from the field" ift.tt/3zpctDN
Dockerfile best practices - stories from the field

Dockerfile best practices - stories from the field

This is a collection of things I have come across using Docker over the years and working with docker in kubernetes across thousands of projects.

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New post: "Fastly Soft Purge vs Instant Purge - what is the difference?" ift.tt/3EzkZ3Z
New post: "Fastly Logging to Amazon S3 in JSON format" ift.tt/3kFruvy
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New post: "Hosting Ghost in Kubernetes" ift.tt/2Vs4KVu

Hosting Ghost in Kubernetes

Ghost is traditional meant to be installed on a single VM. This article will explore how to get Ghost running inside Kubernetes.

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New post: "Purge a single domain and it's content from a Fastly service with multiple domains" ift.tt/31pZtgR
Purge a single domain and it's content from a Fastly service with multiple domains

Purge a single domain and it's content from a Fastly service with multiple domains

One of the current limitations of Fastly is that you cannot purge a single domain from a service, without dropping the entire cache. This post will explore a solution to this.

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New post: "How many JOINs is too many? Tuning optimizer_search_depth for MySQL with Drupal" ift.tt/3bOAKZX
New post: "Finding and killing anonymous sessions in Drupal" ift.tt/32G1tD1
Finding and killing anonymous sessions in Drupal

Finding and killing anonymous sessions in Drupal

Sessions in Drupal are created when you log into Drupal. You can however start a session without first authenticating. This is known as an anonymous session

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New post: "CORS, Cache poisoning and the Vary HTTP header" ift.tt/3lCDtaI
CORS, Cache poisoning and the Vary HTTP header

CORS, Cache poisoning and the Vary HTTP header

Understanding the Vary header is key ensuring CORS will work with CDNs and caching.

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New post: "How to create scripted fields in Kibana using Painless" ift.tt/3cJNL41

How to create scripted fields in Kibana using Painless

What is a scripted field in Kibana?Kibana is really good at searching and visualising data held in ElasticSearch indexes. When you need to go outside of what is in that index however - this is where...

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New post: "Finding and killing long running SQL queries in AWS RDS" ift.tt/3gc7IDB
Finding and killing long running SQL queries in AWS RDS

Finding and killing long running SQL queries in AWS RDS

Occasionally we find sites that are running extremely slowly, and digging down we end up finding MySQL queries that have been running, for sometimes days or even weeks.

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New post: "Debugging SSL certificates with certigo" ift.tt/2ymltyi

Debugging SSL certificates with certigo

OpenSSL only goes so far, learn about Certigo, to which goes a lot further.

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New post: "Preparing for a high traffic event, simple steps to success" ift.tt/2szwYiF
Preparing for a high traffic event, simple steps to success

Preparing for a high traffic event, simple steps to success

The steps that any new launch or high traffic event should go through in order to have the best chance of success.

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New post: "Search API attachments and storing reasonable amounts of data" ift.tt/2XrvzGq
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New post: "How to add sub tabs under the User profile in Drupal 8" ift.tt/2n4Edwa

How to add sub tabs under the User profile in Drupal 8

A simple step by step tutorial on adding a custom sub tab in a user's profile in Drupal 8.

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New post: "How the feeds module in Drupal 7 ended up causing MySQL to sever the connection" ift.tt/2MpRsTE
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New post: "PHP 7.3 and when you can upgrade your Drupal site" ift.tt/2YysLdk

PHP 7.3 and when you can upgrade your Drupal site

PHP 7.3.0 was released in December 2018, and brings with it a number of improvements in both performance and the language. As always with Drupal you need to strike a balance between adopting these...

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