Nick Hawkins-Booth
Technical Support Engineer
Nick is an experienced Technician Support Engineer with a focus on system administration, cloud infrastructure, and deployment, boasting a career that spans over a decade in various technical roles. His core expertise lies in modern DevOps and cloud tools, including AWS, Jenkins, and Docker Products. Outside work Nick is a recognised authority on Christmas light displays, raising money for a charity close to his heart, BLISS.
Latest posts
Security
The MaxMind GeoLite database has always been popular, as the only free (as in beer) source of information to try and figure our what country requests are coming from.
It's incredibly inaccurate, but..
Security
Hardening HashiCorp Vault with load balancing for always-on security
In a production environment, Vault downtime isn't just a security risk — it’s a total operational hard-stop...
Nick Hawkins-Booth
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13 mins
High Availability
Architecting the perfect Christmas? A Highly Available light display!
In my household, only 100% uptime will do!..
Nick Hawkins-Booth
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4 mins
Storage
How to load balance a MariaDB Galera Cluster for performance and HA using LVS & Ldirectord
While a single MariaDB server might suffice for your application's backend, a MariaDB Galera Cluster offers significant advantages, making it a far superior solution...
Nick Hawkins-Booth
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17 mins
HAProxy
Using Grafana Loki with HAProxy for log aggregation
In today's security-conscious world, logs are crucial for gaining insight into your systems...
Nick Hawkins-Booth
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11 mins