December 14, 2025 - Alexander Wei, B.A. M.S.

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Infrastructure

Hot coffee, black. Grafana to-go. Protect Grafana without IP whitelisting.

I know I got you wondering how to secure Grafana so that you can check your dashboards on public 4G LTE. And not need to worry about IP-whitelisting. I am assuming by now you are thinking, Yes Alex! I know that Fail2ban, and a CDN is exactly what I need.

December 14, 2025

Infrastructure

Amazon CloudFront Is Now Free (and That Changes Everything)

Amazon’s CloudFront is one of the most widely used Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) on the internet. A huge portion of the public-facing web relies on CDNs to move content closer to users, reduce latency, and absorb traffic spikes that would otherwise overwhelm origin servers. And Amazon CloudFront is now free.

December 14, 2025