# Eiara Blog

### [A Case Study on Raspberry Pi’s Incident on the Fediverse](/content/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/index.html)
###### Fri 09 December 2022  
This case study covers the incident of [raspberrypi.social](https://raspberrypi.social/), the official Raspberry Pi domain and instance, posting about a new hire on December 8th, 2022 (Aotearoa New Zealand Time), and the subsequent reactions and escalations over the following 8-10 hours.

### [OpenStack-Specific Configuration for Mastodon](/content/posts/2020/Jul/02/openstack-specific-configuration-for-mastodon/index.html)
###### Thu 02 July 2020  
Getting [Cloud Island](https://cloudisland.nz/) launched was a solid 6 weeks of effort, developing the infrastructure-as-code that we felt was necessary for a modern and robust web deployment.

### [On Planning Infrastructure](/content/posts/2020/Jun/24/on-planning-infrastructure/index.html)
###### Wed 24 June 2020  
If you’ve followed me on Twitter for the last few months, you’ve been seeing me talk a lot about what I’m doing with [Cloud Island](https://cloudisland.nz/)[1](/content/posts/#fn:1/index.html). I also wrote a great [article](/content/posts/2020/Jun/10/designing-cloud-island/index.html) on the design behind Cloud Island and the decisions that we made.

### [Designing Cloud Island](/content/posts/2020/Jun/10/designing-cloud-island/index.html)
###### Wed 10 June 2020  
At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, Eiara resumed work on [Cloud Island](https://cloudisland.nz/), a [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/)[1](/content/posts/#fn:1/index.html) instance hosted entirely within New Zealand. We built out an entire deployment infrastructure toolchain for [Catalyst Cloud](https://catalystcloud.nz/) instead of relying on overseas clouds like AWS or Azure.

### [Terraform Lambda Builder Update](/content/posts/2019/Sep/05/terraform-lambda-builder-update/index.html)
###### Thu 05 September 2019  
If you were using our very excellent Terraform [AWS Lambda Package Building](http://github.com/Eiara/terraform_lambda_zip), I’m pleased to announce that we’ve merged in NodeJS support, so you can now build NodeJS packages directly from Terraform as part of a standard `terraform apply` cycle.

### [The Nature of Change](/content/posts/2019/Aug/29/the-nature-of-change/index.html)
###### Thu 29 August 2019  
In my career, I’ve often run into situations where a new tool, technology or process that I think will solve problems or make others’ jobs easier and faster has been met with resistance, and interference.

### [PyCon Australia 2019](/content/posts/2019/Aug/27/pycon-australia-2019/index.html)
###### Tue 27 August 2019  
Earlier this August, I was thrilled to be invited to open the [2019 PyCon Australia](https://2019.pycon-au.org/), with a reprisal my talk [“Creating Lasting Change”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fAorT_bc1I).

### [DevOps Days Newcastle](/content/posts/2019/Apr/01/devops-days-newcastle/index.html)
###### Mon 01 April 2019  
Last October, I was thrilled to get to be able to speak at [DevOps Days Newcastle](http://devopsdaysnewy.org/ "DevOps Days Newcastle") on the factors that go into creating structural change in our businesses, from the on-the-ground point of view of a developer.

### [On Building Lambda Payloads with Terraform](/content/posts/2019/Apr/01/on-building-lambda-payloads-with-terraform/index.html)
###### Mon 01 April 2019  
[Previously](/content/posts/2018/Feb/04/generating-python-payloads-for-aws-lambda/index.html) we announced our packaging tool for AWS Lambda. I’d like to dive into the workings of this tool much more deeply.

### [Deploying to the Cloud in New Zealand](/content/posts/2019/Mar/07/deploying-to-the-cloud-in-new-zealand/index.html)
###### Thu 07 March 2019  
A really satisfying part of the work I do here is helping clients build robust solutions architectures, helping clients understand the security needs and posture that their systems need to meet today’s needs, and grow into tomorrow’s needs.