jokeyrhy.me

GitHub Pages

getting to know Doctor Jekyll

A brief justification for selecting GitHub Pages as my blog hosting system, and a quick rundown of how I've used it.

change of pace

interim strategy for this site

Here I detail the current plan for this site and why I changed my mind about it.

MongoDB

3 is a magic number

Today I’ll go over the configuration of my MongoDB cluster. As I discovered, provided one reads the documentation, it’s surprisingly easy to get up and running.

AWS Elastic Compute Cluster

early adventures / mis-steps with EC2

This post covers my experience with setting up my very own EC2 just the way I want it. Note that this isn’t the first time I’ve played around with these, but it is the first time I’ve actually been motivated to try and do something productive with them.

site infrastructure

AWS Route53, EC2 and EBS, oh my!

In this post, I cover the basic cloud infrastructure I'm using. I also evangelise Amazon Web Services a fair bit. In fairness, ever since Microsoft supported Linux nodes in Azure, I've been pretty tempted to try them out.

welcome!

introduction to JokeyRhy.me

Welcome to my blog-about-building-a-blog! Looks like I finally got this up and running to the point where I can actually submit content! Here's a brief overview of the technology in play.