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Looking for an accurate list of datacenter IP address ranges? After 3+ years of inactivity, 'ipcat' has been updated to sync with the published public IP ranges of major cloud providers. The list of datacenter IP ranges is available in CSV format, updated automatically on a daily basis, making it ea…
Chris Hickman
Have you looked at Open Downloads (oDL) and considered using it, but were discouraged that no updates have been made in over 3 years? Now there's a fork of the project that brings fixes and improvements in hopes of greater adoption of this spec to foster open and transparent counting of downloads in…
Chris Hickman
My Node.js application uses child_process.spawn() to invoke ffmpeg for inspecting audio and video files. This code had been running without fail for many months. How come it suddenly started sporadically returning empty results? Recently, I was preparing for an important demo of Growl, the technolo…
Chris Hickman
Using Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) secrets management integration, but afraid to rotate credentials because your app will break? Here's a technique for automatically updating your containers when secrets are changed. In a previous post, I showed how Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)…
Chris Hickman
Maybe you've heard the buzzwords everyone seems to be talking about when discussing the future of containers. Strange names like "microVMs"... "unikernels"... "sandboxes". Have you wondered what these things are and how you can use them? Or, for that matter, should you…
Chris Hickman