1. Get Bootboot to work on Rails 4.x in deployment environments with Docker

    Bootboot is a great tool for dual booting your Rails upgrade, but it doesn't play well with deployment environments running Rails 4.x. In this blog post we'll show you how you can leverage Docker to effectively get Bootboot to work in these environments.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    January 16, 2023
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Ali Ibrahim
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Ruby
    Rails
    DevOps
  2. XYB (Examine your buckets)

    Another major corporation is in the news for data loss. Don't let your company be next. XYB - Examine your buckets!
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    August 6, 2020
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Keith McCanless
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Security
    Process
    DevOps
  3. The missing fundamental

    When tasked with improving performance of legacy codebases it can be hard to know where to start; this post explores applying a concept from the world of audio engineering to software performance optimization.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    March 10, 2020
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Dave Mosher
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Consulting
    Development
    DevOps
  4. The slippery slope of Docker dev environments

    Recently, I built up a local development environment that uses Docker for some critical integration test paths. As I put the finishing touches on this work, I realized there were some far-reaching implications that I had not taken into consideration before I started down this road, namely:
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    February 11, 2020
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Micah Adams
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    DevOps
  5. From NoOps to AllOps

    What happens when you use so many managed services that the line between infrastructure code and application code becomes blurry.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    November 26, 2019
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Jason Grosz
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    DevOps
  6. Downloading large Heroku Postgres backups

    Once you upgrade beyond hobby-sized postgres databases, fetching a backup becomes more confusing and complicated. Fear not, there's still an easy way to pull down a copy of your data without breaking production!
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    November 12, 2019
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Justin Searls
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    DevOps
  7. Tips for hand-rolling your own deployment pipeline

    Cloud Providers like AWS provide tools to allow you to build your own deployment pipeline. In the first post of a series on NoOps philosophies, we investigate some of the unknowns in rolling your own deployment services with AWS.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    August 20, 2019
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Micah Adams
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    DevOps

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