Server Sorcery 101
A hand-configured VM network built with Vagrant and VirtualBox.
DevOps
- SSH ban and expiry verified in the local lab.
- Recorded lab boot time reduced from 7m 24s to 1m 29s.
Projects
14 projects. Filter by project type, domain or stack.
Automation Alchemy
Six virtual machines provisioned entirely by Ansible, including a Jenkins server configured as code.
DevOps
- Repeat lab provisioning reached changed=0.
- Application deployment and scheduled backups automated.
Infrastructure Insight
A containerised diagnostic app whose nginx balancer reweights its upstreams from Prometheus.
DevOpsFull-stackBackend
- Routing weights responded to induced load in the lab.
- Deleted test file recovered from the backup host.
Sherlock Logs
A full observability platform. Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager and ELK, deployed from twenty Ansible roles.
DevOps
- Fixed a log-shipping loop that grew syslog to 18 GB.
- Alert rules include API errors and projected disk exhaustion.
Cluster Chronicles
Six virtual machines replaced by one Kubernetes cluster, declared in manifests and Helm charts.
DevOps
- Network-policy enforcement checked after switching to Calico.
- Frontend scaled from 2 to 10 replicas under local test load.
GitOps Galaxy
A Kubernetes cluster reconciled from Git by ArgoCD rather than changed by hand.
DevOpsSecurity
- Manual replica drift corrected automatically in the lab.
- Failed lab deployment rolled back through Git.
Cloud Cartographer
A migration study costing the same application on AWS and Azure.
DevOpsDataBackend
- Local load tests measured at 10, 50 and 100 users.
- AWS and Azure cost estimates audited against saved inputs.
Full-Stack E-Commerce Platform
A modular-monolith e-commerce backend and React frontend, with an asynchronous payment pipeline.
Full-stackBackendDevOps
- Concurrent refresh test produced one winner from 10 requests.
- Orders, stock deduction and cart clearing share one transaction.
Stations Pathfinder
A command-line railway dispatcher that plans the fewest turns, not the shortest route.
CLIGames
- Candidate schedules compared by simulated turn count.
- Track and station occupancy checked on each turn.
match-me
A Go and React matchmaking app with preference scoring, profile setup and realtime chat.
BackendReal-timeGamesFull-stack
- Location filtering respects both users' search radii.
- Shared games and languages gate preference scoring.
Literary Lions Forum
A book-discussion forum in Go. Server-rendered on SQLite, with no JavaScript.
BackendSecurity
- Server-rendered discussions without client-side JavaScript.
- Database-backed sessions removed on logout.
flight-data-prettifier
A command-line tool that turns raw flight logs into readable text.
CLIToolsData
- Resolves both IATA and ICAO airport codes.
- Preserves malformed date tokens when parsing fails.
Sauna Ukko
An idle-management game about Finnish sauna culture, with every visual generated at runtime.
Games
- Seeded character art is reproducible from code.
- Tick-based simulation kept separate from the view.
DataForge
A browser-based tool for generating related e-commerce seed data as JSON, CSV or SQL.
ToolsData
- Generates related products, customers, orders and reviews.
- Validates output field mappings across JSON, CSV and SQL.