J. Gavin Ray

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Use your own hardware or use other people's computers?

Use your own hardware or use other people's computers?

A colleague of mine approached me recently and asked me why anyone would own their own hardware in 2023. Specifically, because the cloud is "limitless" (pro tip it's not :) ), and cheaper. Owning servers and using cloud computing are two popular options for businesses to store, manage, and process their data.

Lessons Learned in Decade 0

Lessons Learned in Decade 0

The year 2022 was the year I completed my first decade in the tech industry. The day I realized that not only had I made a decade in industry but I still enjoyed it immensely was a special one for me. I am not a classically trained engineer, I don't

Why did I join Machinify?

Why did I join Machinify?

When I started to look for my next career challenge in September of 2021, I was talking to recruiters at Google, Meta, and other fortune 100 companies, and had landed a couple of compelling offers. I ultimately decided to join Machinify. Why choose a startup I've never heard of before?

Ceph on Minikube

TL;DR Install [https://gist.github.com/jgavinray/0f76a01a2331abeb92a1d5a838eec7f7], Uninstall [https://gist.github.com/jgavinray/46bb28a94a5eeb1e72c0e335a4c0c2bb] At home I enjoy running a bare metal Kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/] cluster that I use as a lab for running various experiments. One of the challenges that I have in particular with this

Freezing Credit and Protecting yourself from Phishing.

I had a family member reach out to me this week after after she had been repeatedly contacted by various people asking for personal details like social security number, credit card information, bank account details, etc. All callers issued various threats that if they did not provide the requested information

Data Sanitization

Cleaning Disks with the Schneier Method

TL;DR - Look at this gist [https://gist.github.com/jgavinray/e7d346748fc5a1bda8f99a92711a1164] Last year I was introduced to plex [https://www.plex.tv/] software. I was really excited about the idea of converting my now seemingly ancient DVD collection into digital files so I can watch movies, and television

Account Management

Web Browsing and Account Management - Part 2

Introduction This is the third and final article in the in a series that presents an opinionated and hopefully simple way to protect your online accounts. To see the motivation as to why I'm writing this article, please see the first article in this series. Recap In the previous article

Account Management

Web Browsing and Account Management - Part 1

Introduction This is the second article in the in a series that presents an opinionated and hopefully simple way to protect your online accounts. To see the motivation as to why I'm writing this article, please see the previous article. The Web Browser Choice Continuing with the opinionated approach, we

Account Management

Web Browsing and Account Management - Part 0

The Phone Call I received a phone call from a family member in another state earlier this week. Always happy to talk to this person I leaned back in my chair happy to hear their voice and wondering what I owed the pleasure of the phone call. After the initial