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Current Projects
I am a recent Media, Information and Technoculture Graduate from Western University. I enjoy meeting new people, working in diverse environments, and producing cool things that elevate experiences. I have demonstrated experience in video production, communications, data analytics, and customer service. Currently, I am applying my expertise in the dynamic world of social media and…
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Past Projects
I have previously worked on content for both Facebook and Instagram pages with thousands to millions of followers. These portfolios include War History Online, The Vintage News, and CoupleThing, a stop motion animation project at Hive Media Group with hundreds of thousands of weekly viewers.
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You, Me, & gRPC
gRPC you say? Think of grpc_pass as proxy_pass’ faster, cooler cousin. grpc is able to carry http2 traffic as an ingest point for connections… Upon discovering this, I ended up making some adaptations to our previous project the Plex CDN. gRPC essentially has a bunch of interesting blocks (mostly due to the way that they’re…
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Adding Docker Applications to Swizzin Installs
So, after the recent r/seedboxes Guides Post, there was some interest in knowing how to integrate something dockerized into the Swizzin panel. First we’re going to start at the highest level, installing Docker. Then we’ll move over to creating a compose, creating a systemd for the compose, how to put it behind nginx, and finally…
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Should I Defrag XFS?
XFS is a high performance filesystem, meant for high amounts of IO and will take a beating with varying sized files, and has the ability to scale quite easily. While XFS provides many benefits to IO by allowing striped allocation, etc. etc. it can become fragmented. Which is liklely why you’re here. The highest risk…
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Faster and Faster: Speeding up CDN Hosts
After my previous blog post on the CDN for media server applications, I’ve started to run into bottlenecks that result in worse performance sometimes, resulting in a huge investigation into what is slowing us down across the board. I’ve just started scratching the surface on what can be done to improve speeds to assorted parts…
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The Power of the Python Virtual Environment
People often come to me asking “how do I add x” to my system… or say “it’s missing dependency x…” but in reality, the user has actually failed to look at the venv module to help with their day to day operations. Virtual environments are a way for Python programs to be run in a…
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Building a Better CDN
Over the many years that I’ve been self-hosting my own media, I’ve had a few issues, some of which include peering from a relatively cheap storage provider in the EU to Toronto. While both Germany and Toronto have major internet exchanges fairly close by, there’s nothing quite like getting content closer to the edge.