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🕑Aug 22, 2023 🖋John Locke 💬2

Rate Limiting an aggressive bot in Nginx

High load isn't necessarily an emergency, but it may be a heads-up before a site noticeably slows down. Sometimes there are weird spikes that just go away, but sometimes this is an indication of a Denial of Service.

🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬0

Post Salt events into a Matrix room

In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This is extremely useful to monitor the results of automatic highstate runs, individual commands, etc.

🕑Jun 16, 2015 🖋John Locke 💬12

The case for git as a deployment tool

More and more I keep running into assertions that Git is a version control tool, and that if you use it for deployment, you're doing it wrong.

Why?

At Freelock we find it to be a very effective deployment tool, and I'm not seeing a solution that meets our needs any better.

Two presentations in particular caught my attention recently mentioned this: