Brig Lamoreaux

Calculating unit cost on shared resources is difficult.

I’m late to the party because I just discovered the answer to something I was curious about every time I would submit a pull request for one of the projects I contribute to.

A key foundational decision for a multi-tenant SaaS solution is the deployment model. I’ve been in serveral workshops with teams who are trying to build multi-tenant SaaS solutions and this is the model

Here are more details on how I organize parameters and variables as a follow-up to my previous post on Infrastructure as Code Patterns.

I’ve been working on a problem with identity for a multi-tennant application offered by a provider. There are a few specific requirements:

I’ve been using a few different patterns for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and wanted to document them.

Customers often ask me about how to analyze their Azure costs. This is a very broad question and there are many ways to answer it. This post will focus on the different types

This post will outline how to develop a strategic approach to manage costs in cloud services.

It’s that time of year again when I need to update the minecraft server but I forgot how.

I enjoy getting sucked into things that tickle my brain. One such activity is coming up with names for my computers/projects/etc. I’ve settled on a naming convention for computers.

Setting up minecraft on azure for fun.

I was recently asked how to query Azure Resource Graph to find details about what a public ip is associated to.

In my experience working with Azure global enterprise customers, I see organizations move through several phases of cloud cost-optimization.

As part of my blog migration, I discovered one of my images wasn’t showing because it had the wrong case myimage.png vs MyImage.png. This is how I checked what other images were named

I started hosting my wiki on Azure way back in 2016. The other day I received a message that I was  not using managed disks and I should upgrade. So I pushed the

I tend to flash my raspberry pies a lot. Here are the steps I follow to get to my working state.

Continuing on with Keras, there is a simple IMDB data set with movie ratings.  Building a quick model and training over a few epochs shows the training accuracy goes up to the high

I’m toying around with my new dashcam videos and thought I would try to build a neural network. I found Adam Geitgey’s article really interesting.

I’ve been making a lot of deployments that take a while to finish. There is an api call to fetch the status of the operations.

It takes a while to build a secure HDInsight cluster. In my case it was about an hour from start to finish.

Many organizations are benefiting from advanced analytics and machine learning. I work with a lot of teams who create amazing data analytics models and who need to then deploy them in a way

I have an HDInsight Spark cluster and wanted to fetch some data out of a Hive table and play around with it in R. I’m using Microsoft R. Here is how I did

I tend to forget how to log onto EC2. This morning I spun up a few servers with an Ubuntu image on EC2. As soon as I tried to log on, I received

I’ve been playing around with NLP. I wanted to see if I could extract terms from text. With the help of the internet, I found some answers. It boils down to:

The men of Issachar had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. 1 Chronicles 12:32

It’s that time again to change the water filter. Here is what I had to do

Notes from Mark Castrovinci 1:1

I just had the engine light come on the 4Runner. Looking around here is what I found. Fortunately for me, my transmission fluid level was low. Adding a little fluid fixed the problem.

Notes from Mark Lipshaw

I was asked to put together a list of accomplishments I’ve achieved over the past few months. I thought it would be important to focus on different aspects of my career growth.

These are the notes form a one on one with Mark Castrovinci.

I’d like to know a bit more about the tools and techniques around solving sentiment analysis. Here are a few link’s I’ve found. My focus is to use python.

Thanks for attending the session I put at MongoSV on How We Evaluated MongoDB as a Relational Database Replacement. The presentation is now available.

If you don’t have your schedule finalized, I’ll be speaking on How We Evaluated MongoDB as an Relational Database Replacement at 9:50 am, right after the welcome ceremony at MongoSV.

Thanks to Jeremy Taylor with the 10Gen team in providing me an opportunity to speak at Oracle Openworld 2012.

I’m enrolled in the Stanford course Probabilistic Graphical Models offered by Coursera and found a very interesting scenario concerning ways to determine and model the intelligence of a student.

Spinning up servers on Amazon has been such a great way to test software. I recently did a performance test of MongoDB and put together a process and a few scripts that helped

I recently needed to search for documents in mongo using mongoose. I knew I needed a regex but couldn’t figure out how to pass the case insensitive flag. We’ll here is how you

I just had to import a VM image onto EC2. Here is how I did it.

I don’t know why this is so difficult to remember but here it is. Notice the trailing . on the end of source

I recently had to downgrade node and found Jens walk through great.

I had a little scare the other day. For some reason my db for the blog stopped. I thought it would be a good idea to make a backup just in case.

I need to install Node and Mongo an a server. These are my notes.

Once I got node service setup on my server I wasn’t happy with having to specify a port. Looking around I see others use nginx to listen on port 80 and proxy everything

Way back in 2008 I was really getting into JavaScript development and created a small templating object.

I attended the SpringOne 2GX conference in Chicago and had a great time. It’s always nice to learn a new thing or two. I wanted to take time to write down one of

These are general notes I took

I recently set up a few new servers and needed to allow other developers access. Here is how I did it:

I’m on a project that uses flash for the ui. I want to make a few modification and thought I would try it out. The tutorial ask to install Flash Builder, but I

I needed to share a folder between a linux machine and windows. The seceret is using Samba. Fortunately there are several guides out there that show how to do it. These are my

I’m putting together a simple web page and trying to learn more about Freemarker. I’ve setup my views for the project like this:

From some reason the Window Borders in Ubuntu go missing and disappear. This means I don’t have the minimize or maximize buttons on my window. Fortunately I was able to find a solution.

From some reason, the menu on my Ubuntu decided to freeze on me. Fortunately I can still be productive from the command line. The only problem is my launcher for the terminal is

I primarily develop web applications but have been out of it for a while and needed to look at old code for a reminder. Well here is how I configure a project to

I really like design patterns and also enjoy learning the why behind some implementations. Although the singleton pattern is one of the most widely used patterns around, it is also one that can

I’ve known about Amazon EC2 service for a while. I’ve really been interested in trying something out when I heard about AWS’s Free Usage Tier. I could get a server in the cloud

I like to organize information. Mostly because I tend to forget things. Here is a template of what I find useful.

So my first attempt at installing ejabberd ended with the app not being able to start up.

I’m working on a project that needs to stand up an XMPP server. I’ve decided on using ejabberd for a couple of reason. Here is how I got it started

After getting Pretty Links enabled, I wanted to find out more about .htaccess. I was surprised to see the following:

I wanted to enabled “Pretty” permalinks for my blog and found it wasn’t just a click of the button.

I just reviewed a recorded tech talk I gave a while ago. Here are some suggestions on improving my presentation skills

This is the second post in a series about Apache JMeter.

I’m going to try this again. I’ve tried to install Cacti once before and had difficulty. Hopefully I can be more successful. I don’t know much about PHP so hopefully that won’t matter.

I recently had a task to test the performance between two different solutions. After looking around at several tools, I settled on Apache JMeter. It took a while learning the tool. However, I

Extracting Text from Responses Use the Regular Expression Extractor and have it as a child on the request you want to get data from. Set the template value to $1$ to populate your

I meet today about setting the priority of automating standards compliance. These are my notes:

I’m going to look into different ways to fulfill the objective of separating user content into different user groups

Objective

I’m not on the tutorial that creates a custom page with a custom controller. I would like to know:

I wanted to do a quick test on a website using Python. I knew about beautifulsoup but I wanted the power of JQuery. So I found pyquery.

After a fun getaway to San Francisco I thought I would share some tips I wish I had before I went.

Tutorial #6 introduces the concept of Unit Test and has me creating a unit test for a trigger I wrote.

I’ll be honest. I’m skeptical that the SalesForce platform can effectivly create applications that look and perform on par with custom Java/Web apps build in house.

I’ve been looking into SalesForce.com to see how it works. There is a developer section with some documentation. So I decided to jump right in.

I’m setting up Riak to see what it is about. I’m going to follow the Fast Track and keep track of my notes.

In the same vein of developing application quicker with Frameworks, there is also the idea of deploying application faster using platforms.

Quick Start Getting Started

I want to run a test app in ROR. Of course I want this to work in Eclipse so I looked around to see how to do it. After reading a few things

I’ve been looking into different frameworks that “promise” faster development. Here is a list of a few of them

Research Heroku What framework can help speed up development Java Frameworks Python Frameworks Ruby Frameworks Rapid application development

I hate having to login to remote machines. Since SSH can be configured with public/private keys, I think it makes sense to use them. Here is a very simple way to get my

Research Database.com

I have four VM machines in dev and I want to configure my own hadoop cluster to use as a tool and analysis.

Add Standards to DeathBURRITO Create Report that correlates Rollbacks to Standards Compliance Create First Draft Compliance Automation Roadmap

I’ve been working on parsing 1 million records into a local graph. I noticed that it was taking a while so I put together a test app to find where the problem could

Well, since I’ve been playing around with wordpress, I thought I would update it to the latest version. Mostly because I wanted to get rid of the annoying upgrade banner. So First things

I have a goal to improve my communication and organization process. One way I thought I could do that is to blog more regularly.