Handling Huge Traffic Spikes with Azure Functions and Cloudflare

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Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. They’d given me a heads up as apparently, that’s what the program

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Weekly Update 179

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On reflection, I feel this week’s update was dominated by having a laugh at an IoT candle 😂 And that’s fair, too, even though I then went and bought one because hey, this is gonna be great conference talk material! Delivery is going to be much later this year so don’t

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Weekly Update 178

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This week I’m at Microsoft Ignite “The Tour” in Sydney with Lars Klint. I’ve spent most of the last couple of days doing the “hallway track” (basically just wandering around and saying “hi” to people) and doing a bunch of meetings with folks here on cyber things. I didn’t mention

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Donating BAT to Have I Been Pwned with Brave Browser

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I don’t know exactly why the recent uptick, but lately I’ve had a bunch of people ask me if I’ve tried the Brave web browser. Why they’d ask me that is much more obvious: Brave is a privacy-focused browser that nukes ads and trackers. It also has some cool built-in

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Sharenting, BYOD and Kids Online: 10 Digital Tips for Modern Day Parents

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Today is Safer Internet Day which marks the annual occurrence of parents thinking about their kids’ online presence (before we go back to thinking very little about it tomorrow!) It’s also the day the Courier-Mail here in my home state of Queensland published a piece on sharenting or as Wikipedia

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Weekly Update 177

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I’ve got audio! Ok, so I cheated a bit in terms of recording back in the home office, but the plugs I need to make the Zoom H6 work the way it should (and yeah, I know I said “Rode” H6 in the vid, sorry!) are on the way and

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Weekly Update 176

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Well that’s the audio issues fixed – mostly. The Zoom H6 is an awesome recorder, I just can’t quite work out the right adaptors for the mic. I’ve got a couple of Saramonic SR-XLM1 lav mics and the guy at the DJ store I bought the Zoom from was convinced

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Weekly Update 175

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Alright, let me get this off my chest first – I’ve totally lost it with these bloody Instamics. I’ve had heaps of dramas in the past with recordings being lost and the first time I do a 3-person weekly update only 2 of them recorded (mine being the exception). I

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Kids and Code: Object Orientated Programming with Code Combat

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Geez time flies. It’s just a tad under 4 years ago that I wrote about teaching kids to code with code.org which is an amazing resource for young ones to start learning programming basics. In that post I shared a photo of my then 6-year-old son Ari holding a

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Weekly Update 174

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We’re in Norway! More specifically, Scott Helme and I are in Hafjell and recording this after a day on the snow before heading back to Oslo and the NDC Security conference next week. For now though, we’re talking about some really screwy global roaming behaviour with telcos, the Danish gov

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