Infrastructure Updates: April 2023
I'm continuing to make headway on some of my personal projects. Here's what's been happening in terms of my internal infrastructure for the last two or so months.
Category Computing Adventures
Computing-related adventures, including things from both my own personal projects and from work-related endeavours.
Securing Internal Applications
I recently made some changes to my intranet applications. Today, I talk about my adventures on securing these applications by authenticating users to see if they are authorized.
Running Plex on Docker
Having my media library in two locations means I should have two Plex servers. I talk about my experience with setting up Plex on Docker with hardware-accelerated decoding at home.
Visualizing [email protected] CGSS Data with Grafana
I collected some deresute game data for myself and some of my friends for the last few years. I explore the use of Grafana to visual some of this data.
Ren and discord.py v2.x Migration
We recently upgraded SFU Anime Club's Discord bot, Ren, to a newer version of Red-DiscordBot and discord.py. This post outlines the motivation and some of the challenges faced during this endeavour.
Job Reflection: 3 Years
I recently completed three years of work at my current company. I share some additional thoughts since my last job-related update.
Internal Infrastructure Changes
It's time to clean up some of my internal infrastructure. I explore the use of Docker and my experience with migrating from VM-based web services to containerized web services.
Connecting Two LANs Over VPN, Revisited
I revisited my inter-site VPN setup after migrating off of Windows Server 2012 R2. I explore using ZeroTier as the VPN alongside IP routing on Linux, using an existing VM and Raspberry Pi.
The SFU Summer Festival 2022: Timelapse – Behind The Scenes
The SFU Summer Festival came back this year after a two year hiatus from COVID. The club's Rengineers team set up a timelapse for the event. This post goes over some of the high level details happening behind the scenes.
Job Reflection: After 2.5 Years
Time flies, so here's a thoughtdump post on on my current job after more than two and a half years at the company.