Richard Downer.
Software Engineer turned Cloud Architect and Devops.
Specialising in AWS and FinOps.
Commodore Amiga and other retro 80s/90s computers.
Amateur electronics, hardware and fumbling with FPGAs.
Personal website, projects and blog.
Minecraft for Children
Minecraft can be a fun game for young children, but not when there’s monsters in the dark. Here’s how to set up Minecraft games just for fun and creativity, without the scary stuff.
9 November 2022 Misc
Memory in the MS-DOS era
MS-DOS memory management always was confusing for teenage me. But with the hindsight of a couple of decades, it’s actually not as difficult to understand as I first thought.
10 July 2020 Retro Computing
AWS CodeDeploy, Blue/Green Deployments, and CloudFormation
Subtitled, “Learn from my failures!”
25 January 2019 Cloud Computing
Understanding collectd and rrdtool
I recently had reason to collect metrics on a Linux server that was to be posted to an analysis service. My requirements were to collect minimum, maximum and average measurements of several key …
27 October 2017 Misc
IPv6 and OpenWRT
Thanks to OpenWRT, I have a fully-functional IPv6 home network
22 September 2017 Misc
At work
In addition to my own site, I sometimes write posts for Cloudsoft, my employer. Here are some of the articles I've written for their blog:
Apache Brooklyn 1.0 has taken a long journey since its inception, and many people have been involved over that time. Read more
AWS recently announced a new instance class, T3. These are cost-effective instances which offer great price/performance for workloads that use moderate CPU, with the option to burst to high CPU usage whenever needed. Read more
