SES managed pool

Today was the first time that I've setup a managed IP pool on AWS/SES.
The process seems easy enough, I'll need to monitor it over the next few days.
I would have preferred to have applied it via Cloudformation,
but the environment still has a lot of legacy config that hasn't been imported into CF yet.

First time fixing a corrupt github action

There was a failure on github actions today which seemed to corrupt the action responsible for publishing my github page crowne.githhub.io .
I couldn't cancel it from the command line using
> gh run cancel 132546789

I couldn't cancel it using curl.
Eventually switching the page source to none and then back to main worked.

Upgrade AKS cluster

I'm waiting for the Dev AKS cluster upgrade to finish.
Going from 1.31.7 to 1.32.9, I never remember these numbers so jotting it down here, hopefully it all goes smoothly.

langlines

In December I played around with Googles Ant-Gravity and made a word game for English and Spanish.
https://crowne.github.io/langlines/

Copy as markdown link

 I found a nice chrome plugin here Copy as Markdown using it to keep copies of the saa-c03 course links.

Achievement updates

Adding to my log of technical accomplishments since my last post I have:

• Deployed an Azure Service Bus consumer written in PHP using the curl interface.
• This also reused the Bicep CI/CD for creating the queue ... very elegant
• Deployed opensearch + dashboards + fluent-bit into a docker compose stack
  this provides observability over nginx logs
• I also deployed my first change in C# ASP .Net
  ... I'm not a big fan of the Entity Framework. Perhaps it's the way that it is being used in the project that I'm working on. It abstracts too far away from SQL , which is the most successful DSL on the planet. SQL is understood by many people on the project from different roles : Programmers, Business Analysts and Project Managers, EF replaces an easily readable query with a technical chunk of code only understood by programmers often with the SQL generated only at runtime making SQL Optimization very difficult.

More AWS adventures

Today I implemented CloudTrail and backups using Cloudformation.
naming has been a journey that will probably need to be revisited.