Westsworld – Rambling :)

Handle replication errors on Azure Database for MySQL flexible server

Post author By jimmiw
Post date September 1, 2022
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At work we have just recently started moving our data to Azure Cloud. We still have the old on-premise setup running, with databases and web servers.

To make the move to Azure Cloud, I have used a lot of time prepping the terraform scripts to handle our servers, but I have only recently been able to make a copy of the current database (with a whopping 1.7TB of data) and copy it to the cloud.

It took a few days to insert the data into Azure MySQL, so after getting a replication error today, I was not ready to drop the replica database, to insert a fresh dump.

Tags Azure, MySQL, Replication

Ruby On Rails

Old rails project with gem install errors :/

Post author By jimmiw
Post date December 11, 2020
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One does not simply “gem install thin -v 1.5.1” on new Macs, when the project depends on ruby 2.5.7..

Tags gem install, ruby, ruby2.5.7

php

Laravel AWS SDK credentials using .env and configs

Post author By jimmiw
Post date November 25, 2020
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Every now and then, I need to integrate with an Amazon web service (aws). I like the whole IAM user way of doing this, so that is usually my preferred choice. However, every time i need to setup a connection in a project (using mostly Laravel these days), I forget how I did it last […]