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Aidan Daly

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Cloudflare Infrastructure infographic: daly.id.au, wedding.daly.id.au, the Daly Portal and other Workers and APIs run on the Cloudflare edge platform (Workers, D1, R2, Access, DNS, Tunnels, routes, caching and security), beside a comparison of the traditional VPS model with the Cloudflare operating
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Cloudflare Infrastructure

Moving beyond traditional hosting to an edge-first architecture: Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Access host the Daly websites, applications and APIs without a rented server to maintain.

  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Edge computing
  • Infrastructure
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  • Firewalla Implementation infographic: Firewalla sits as a dedicated security layer between the internet and the household network, giving visibility, security and control over connected devices, home automation and self-hosted applications.
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    Firewalla Implementation

    Taking ownership of home network security and visibility: a dedicated Firewalla security layer that shows what is connected to the household network, what it is doing, and gives control over it.

    • Firewalla
    • Network security
    • Home network
  • Home Assistant infographic: Home Assistant as the central integration and automation engine connecting lighting and devices, environmental sensors, presence, security, dashboards and self-hosted services.
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    Home Assistant

    Building an integrated, privately controlled smart home: Home Assistant as the central platform that brings devices, sensors and services together through shared automations and dashboards.

    • Home Assistant
    • Home automation
    • Open source
  • Wedding Portal infographic: instead of renting a commercial wedding-planning service, one owned platform with a public wedding website for guests and private planning and administration, running on Cloudflare Workers and Payload CMS.
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    Wedding Portal

    A privately owned wedding planning platform: a public wedding website with private planning and administration tools, built and hosted on my own infrastructure instead of commercial subscription services.

    • Cloudflare Workers
    • Payload CMS
    • Self-hosted
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Hi, I'm Aidan. I write about leadership and learning, building useful things, personal projects, and life in general.

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