Capturing Information with Drafts

I mentioned in my previous post that I would have preferred one tool to handle my knowledge base. After hearing about Drafts on the Focused podcast (Episode 104), I thought I would give that a try. I installed it on...

Retaining Knowledge

One of the things that I learned early in my career was to take notes. There was nothing more frustrating to me that to come across a problem that I knew I had solved in the past, but couldn’t remember...

Cleaning Up the Site

Between some personal issues and vacation, I have not had a lot to post about over the last few weeks. I did have time to do some site cleanup, fixing some of the pages that had weird code blocks and...

AWS DataSync Across Accounts

As you might have guessed from last week’s post, I have been working a lot in Jira and Confluence. This week, I have been working on the process to copy production data into our staging environment to be able to...

Jira Performance Testing

For various reasons, we host our own Jira and Confluence instances within AWS. We have been talking about adding a CDN (CloudFront) to see if it will help with performance, especially for our end users in other countries. Rather than...