Cameron Ezell - Cameron Ezell

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My blog has been slowly becoming an unsupported, end-of-life mess over the last couple years so I spent my Sunday finally upgrading Ghost and Ubuntu to the latest LTS versions. While I was here, I thought it would be a good opportunity to at least throw out some kind of

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My Alexa Skill is live!

I don't have a tutorial ready to go yet, but I did want to promote the fact that my Alexa skill is now live and ready to use. You can enable it here. If you have any issues with it or find any bugs, do let me know.

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Automating a Twitter Bot with AWS Lambda

I’ve always been a fan of The Simpsons and have been following @simpscreens on Twitter for a while, an account that tweets a random frame of the show every 30 minutes. It's pretty entertaining catching the occasional out-of-context image from the show in my Twitter feed so I decided

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Failed to start service: Unit service not found -- Upgrading Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04

Just this week I decided I would finally make the jump from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 on this server. (I try to stick with the LTS versions of Ubuntu so I never really spent any time in Ubuntu 15.04.) I went ahead and took a snapshot of

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Getting Started With Appium in AWS Device Farm for iOS

Lately I've been interested in moving our iOS app testing to AWS Device Farm. This allows us to share testing results across different teams, view historical performance, and easily test on many different iOS devices. I thought I would share my experience here and how I got started. AWS Device

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How to Encrypt an EBS Volume in AWS

If you're using AWS in an environment where privacy is a huge concern (ex. HIPAA) you'll need to make sure that each of your servers with the potential to have any protected health information (PHI) is encrypted. When you launch a server with a public AMI (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc.) the

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Hosting Mattermost on AWS

I recently installed the open-source Slack alternative Mattermost on a personal t2.micro Ubuntu instance in AWS. So far, I love it and thought I would share my experiences in using EC2, RDS, and S3 to host the application. Mattermost has their own install guide which is pretty thorough and