Frank Contrepois

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AWS experiment 1 - best way to create many small files

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Introduction As a way to continue learning AWS and in preparation for future certifications I want to do some experiments on AWS. Each experiment will be easily replicable and will allow you to test it. This first experiment is foundational and is focused on finding a fast way to create a controlled number files of known (small) size. Conclusion if you don’t want to read it all: Create a big file with dd and then spliting it is by far more efficient than using dd in a for-loop for files under 100k. Read more...

Google Cloud Solution Architect Pro

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Hello, as discussed in a previous article I was trying to pass the Google Cloud Solution Architect Professional. I did fail my first try, but made it (luck was heavily involved) on the second try. Cool! a bientôt Read more...

Test the Spammyness of your Emails

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While configuring protonmail for the domain frankcontrepois.com and the mailchimp account, I wanted to check if everything was configured correctly. This is when I found https://www.mail-tester.com/ which helps a lot. Go to their page, send an email to the address they show and click a button. Easy, simple, and functional. Thanks Read more...

Google has too much info on me

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Google aims to collect small pieces of information that, on their own, do not provide much and aggregating them make sense and create not only a profile but also understand your evolution. So the more small pieces they have, the more they have an understanding. Every service of Google is aimed at collecting those pieces. Let’s see some example with a story. You are on Gmail - Google read your email, knows your contacts, who do you ignore, who do you reply fast, which email you open and which link you click. Read more...