Adam Malone

Adam Malone

Sydney, Australia
Aug
26
Cache purging with Ghost and Cloudflare Workers

Cache purging with Ghost and Cloudflare Workers

As I have moved my blog platform over to Ghost, I've realised that there will be other parts of my
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Aug
20
Personal Resets

Personal Resets

I find it's highly beneficial to do a personal reset every so often. While I can't speak for others, for
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Aug
16
New year, new blog

New year, new blog

It's been quite literally years that I've been putting off updating my blog, both in the underlying technology as well
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Oct
10
IP Restrictions behind Cloudflare and Varnish

IP Restrictions behind Cloudflare and Varnish

I've recently been working with a client using Drupal, Varnish, and Cloudflare as part of their digital transformation journey. The
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Dec
22
Using Toran Proxy to speed up Drupal builds

Using Toran Proxy to speed up Drupal builds

Over the last couple of days an internal thread has been making the rounds at Acquia about speeding up Composer
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Dec
16
Installing an Origin CA cert in Pound

Installing an Origin CA cert in Pound

Recently I was approached by one of the Cloudflare channel team as they advised all customers about Google's announcement [https:
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May
09
Migrating into multisite

Migrating into multisite

Quite often in my role as a Solutions Architect at Acquia, I'll see customers looking to bring sites under the
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Sep
03
Verifying SSL certificates with drupal_http_request

Verifying SSL certificates with drupal_http_request

Recently I was posed with the question about verifying self-signed SSL certificates with drupal_http_request() [https://api.drupal.org/
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Mar
10
Making Nagios check OpenVPN

Making Nagios check OpenVPN

I've been slowly expanding the amount of automation that runs on the servers I personally maintain. With Puppet [https://puppetlabs.
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Nov
20
Fighting back from Drupal hacks

Fighting back from Drupal hacks

The last thing any website owner, developer or administrator wants to hear is that they've been hacked. Whether the cause
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