Mike Bailey

Fixed! Melburnians Misinformed about Lockdown Rules for Exercise

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Right-sizing your AWS Lambdas

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I was recently able to reduce the cost of one of our serverless applications by more than half by reducing the memory allocated to the lambdas.

Why You Should Enable S3 Block Public Access

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Amazon S3 enables you to accidentally share confidential information with the world. The potential impact of misconfiguration justifies implementing controls...

Don’t Buck the System, Change it

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I don’t consider myself a Buddhist but attest to their belief that “Life is Suffering”. Not all of it all the time, but there’s always some waiting. To some...

Semantic CloudFormation Parameter Values

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Here’s a pure Cloudformation solution to two annoyances I encounter when managing AWS CloudFormation Parameters. It allows you to optionally specify exported...

Smoking: Prevention & Treatment

1 minute read

When it comes to life threatening situations, prevention and treatment serve different purposes and importantly, different populations.

How to Save Money

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Are you price conscious in your everyday spending? A lot of us aren’t for the basic reason that it consumes brain cycles for little percieved reward. Quittin...

Truth about Edinburgh Gardens NYE

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What happens when more 15,000 revellers converge on an inner city Melbourne park to ring in the new year with no perimeter fencing, byo drugs/alcohol and jus...

Fun with Retinal Burns

1 minute read

Disclaimer: Don’t look at any bright light source. It may damage your eyes!

Vagrant notes

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I’m a massive fan of Vagrant’s command line virtualisation goodness. This post is me trying to find a public place for my vagrant notes to rest (I couldn’t f...

First Impressions of Macbook Air with preinstalled Mountain Lion

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Last Friday night I picked up my new Macbook Pro and thought it might be worth sharing my initial experiences. Coming from a late 2011 MacBook Pro with HDD I...