DevOps
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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! -
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. -
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: -
From NoOps to AllOps
What happens when you use so many managed services that the line between infrastructure code and application code becomes blurry. -
A first look at GitHub Actions
A walkthrough of a typical Node.js CI workflow using GitHub Actions, migrated from Travis CI. -
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! -
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. -
Are you really ready for serverless?
With all the hype of serverless, it can be difficult to differentiate between real value and marketing fluff. This post seeks to examine the purported benefits of serverless presented in the "Serverless Manifesto" to help you understand if serverless is the right tool for you needs. -
Embracing NoOps
In The Olden Days™ of web development, a single FTP server and a bash script were all that was necessary to deploy and serve an application. If it worked on your machine, it was good enough for the rest of the connected world.
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