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·Mar 10

Hosting A Static Website On An AWS S3 Bucket

Amazon’s Simple Storage System (S3) is probably one of the most affordable solutions to host a website, especially if you are looking to build one using a jamstack solution like myself (https://melvin.laguren.net). I’ve outlined the steps below to configure an S3 bucket to host a sample website. If you don’t…

S3

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Hosting A Static Website On An AWS S3 Bucket
Hosting A Static Website On An AWS S3 Bucket
S3

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Feb 28

Running KIBA as a Github Action

Now that I have gone over how I built an ETL job using KIBA, let’s look at how I leverage Github Actions to run the jobs on a daily basis. Setting Up Environments As I continue to redesign buyanddefi.com, I want to set up different environments to test my etl code and other…

Github Actions

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Running KIBA as a Github Action
Running KIBA as a Github Action
Github Actions

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Feb 21

Kiba — Loading Data To Buy & Defi

In my last post, I showed how I collected Earn information from Binance US’s website using Mechanize. Now with the data captured, how do I load it to a database that my website, buyanddefi.com, can use? What is KIBA? Kiba is an ETL framework written in ruby that makes it…

Etl

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Kiba — Loading Data To Buy & Defi
Kiba — Loading Data To Buy & Defi
Etl

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Feb 13

Building A Page Scraper With Ruby and Mechanize

Just like interest rates, staking/defi rates change periodically. Collecting and entering this information from different crypto exchange websites manually can be a painstaking task. Unfortunately, very few crypto exchanges provide an API to collect that information. So, I decided to write a page scraper to collect the data and…

Web Scraping

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Building A Page Scraper With Ruby and Mechanize
Building A Page Scraper With Ruby and Mechanize
Web Scraping

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Oct 19, 2022

DevOps or SRE — A Simple API Example

During the development of a new app environment with terraform, I was reviewing the dev environment and asked a question to my DevOps engineer: How Do I Know That This Environment Is Functional? The first answer I received was to call the “alive” endpoint and check for a status code…

DevOps

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DevOps or SRE — A Simple API Example
DevOps or SRE — A Simple API Example
DevOps

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May 5, 2021

Investing In Disneyland

Over a year ago, Disneyland closed its gates because of the pandemic. Not only did the park close, but it put an end to the Disneyland Annual Pass. After reopening on April 30, details of the new annual pass program have not been made publicly available as of this post. …

Disneyland

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Investing In Disneyland
Investing In Disneyland
Disneyland

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Aug 7, 2020

CardNow Wow?

If you are like me, then you have given a majority of your friends and family a gift card for various occasions. I actually got into the habit of grabbing a gift card every time I was at the grocery, just so that one was available when I needed it…

Gift Cards

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Gift Cards

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Apr 10, 2020

Starting The Adventure — Epic 1

“How easy is it to build a QR Code Generating Website?” After 3 weeks adhering to California’ Shelter in Place mandate, this message from a colleague was refreshing. I quickly responded to him saying that it was relatively easy to build. …

Bdd

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Starting The Adventure — Epic 1
Starting The Adventure — Epic 1
Bdd

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