Deploy a simple Squid Proxy Server on Azure

A caching proxy server (in this case: http://www.squid-cache.org/) can be used to reduce bandwidth and as the proxy will cache frequently-requested pages, can also help to improve response times. My use-case is a bit different as I need a way to test mobile devices to connect to the web-server running in Azure, but the web-server […]

Raspberry Ubuntu 20.04 InfluxDB & Grafana

As I do play around with environment sensors, based on TinkerForge components Arduino and LoRaWAN, I need to be able to store the data and also expose the it in some interesting way. InfluxDB is perfect for storing time based measurements, also it does not really requires too much Database Management knowledge. Which makes it […]

Raspberry Pi Ubuntu 20.04 Node-red

Node-red is a flow based development tool I use at home for getting my sensor-data in an Influx-database and with a Grafana front-end expose the data. That setup runs on a Intel NUC with Ubuntu 18.04 so time to get it upgraded to 20.04. But before I upgrade I want to know I am able […]