Walking the talk of IR35 – by quitting a contract
Should you offer notice on a contract when it’s not compliant? I did, and I’ll tell you why. Reading Time: 6 minutes Winning the Work A while back, I agreed to commence on a contract for…
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Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for Electrolytes while fasting
If you’re on a keto diet, intermittant-fasting, or water-fasting, you might be supplementing with electrolytes to alleviate Keto-flu, heart palpitations, headaches, muscle-shakes, and a variety of other ailments that can happen when you’re restricting your…
AWS Lambda: “ModuleNotFoundError No Module named _foo or foo” Solution
There are two reasons you might encounter this issue on AWS Lambda. You’re attempting to import a library that isn’t available by default in the Lambda Runtime environment. In which case you need to include…
Using Poppler/pdftotext and other custom binaries on AWS Lambda
A recurring question with AWS Lambda functions is how to properly use third-party binary executables in the Lambda execution environment. A lot of people like to use precompiled binaries but often they’re not available and…
My experience with the new “remote” AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam
AWS announced on the 28th August 2019 that the entry-level certification – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – was now available to be taken remotely from the comfort of your home or office. This certification is…
Fixing “com.amazon.coral.service.InternalFailure” when using ACM
If you’re using the AWS ACM console to create a certificate, and at the final stage you get this annoying and useless com.amazon.coral.service.InternalFailure, I’ve got the solution for you. You’re probably working in an AWS…
IR35 is easily avoided, but it’s time to get with the programme
I’ve read a lot of articles lately talking in doomworthy terms about the Off-Payroll working rules from April 2020 that will apply to the private-sector for contractors. Similar rules have been in force for the…
Sense-checking AWS Cost Explorer Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations
In November AWS announced Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations in the Cost Explorer. Great! I thought, finally some free native support for what a lot of cost-analysis companies offer at a price. And yet when I look at…
Docker-in-Docker Private Repository “No Basic Auth Credentials”
Recently I was frustrated in a Jenkins build when I was running Docker-in-Docker to build and push a container to AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). The error on push was a familiar `no basic auth…
How not to hire a DevOps Engineer
This is a true story, although names and details have been removed or changed to protect the awful. Quotes however are verbatim. As often happens when you have ‘DevOps’ in your job title, I received…