How To Perform DNS Delegation

Use Case While building infrastructure, especially in The Cloud, you often come across the need to manage a subdomain. Perhaps you have something like staging.example.com that will be wholly managed within Route53 (Amazon Web Services’ DNS service). However, your company’s DNS zone (example.com) is hosted in another place, say, Namecheap (a domain registrar) or Dyn (a DNS management service). What can you do? The Answer The answer is that you need to delegate your DNS subdomain to Route53. This sounds a lot more difficult than it actually is. DNS delegation involves taking a subdomain and pointing it to another set of DNS records. You need permissions to modify both a Route53 hosted zone and your DNS zone in the other DNS service. ...

May 26, 2018 · 5 min · 936 words · Scott Brown

New Business Card

I purchased business cards awhile back but I never wrote anything about it. They are personal business cards, I needed them for situations where I am meeting new people. I am actually fairly shy about giving them out, it is surprising that some people think business cards show how outdated you are, yet they are still used quite a lot in other countries and non-tech industries. Here is what the cards look like: ...

December 3, 2016 · 3 min · 492 words · Scott Brown