Ryan's Tech Blog

Ryan's Tech Blog

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Build your own Service Locator in Dart and Flutter

Frequently, I find myself looking for better ways to pass around references to the different services I use throughout my app's code. These services can be data sources, repositories, loggers, analytics, storage, etc. I've passed them around through constructors, but then my constructor arguments get bloated. I created an InheritedWidget

Build your own Logger in Dart and Flutter

Build your own Logger in Dart and Flutter

Logging is a fundamental process of recording messages and state of a program. These records are built with the intent of better understanding a program's execution. Logging involves taking in a message, and outputting a log. These logs can take many different shapes, files, databases, but the most common is

Traefik with Crowdsec

Docker Featured

Traefik with Crowdsec

Setting up Traefik with Let's Encrypt certificates is safe and easy, but does it fully protect you against malicious users? The answer is no. You're still vulnerable to a variety of attacks. A common one would be a DDoS attack. This where a malicious user(s) overloads your server with

Traefik Wildcard Certs with Linode DNS

So I've covered in another tutorial how to set up Traefik with Docker Compose. In that post, we were able to set up Traefik to use Let's Encrypt as a cert resolver and perform HTTP challenges. But what about DNS challenges? Specifically, Linode DNS challenge and with Wildcard Certs? Linode

How to setup Traefik with Docker Compose

Setting up services and securing them can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. Every time I looked up a tutorial on how to set up a service, it was long and difficult to follow. Many of them required a dedicated server (or virtual machine), setting up