Blog Posts

An AWS ECR Reverse Proxy with NGINX and Lua

We give each of our clients push and pull access to our own Docker registry. When we were building our infrastructure, we weren't sure how to best provide this functionality.

By: Matt Jachowski

Infrastructure as Code, not Configuration

When my co-founder and I started our company, I immediately offered to be the “infrastructure guy”. In retrospect, it’s amusing how much I underestimated the difficulty of that task. We were setting out to build a cloud-based developer tool in AWS.

By: Matt Jachowski

How Chaos Engineering Works

You never know what might happen to your system because a server room caught on fire. Or can you? With chaos engineering, you can run experiments to make your system more resilient to failures.

By: Milecia McGregor

11 Ways To Optimize Your Deployment Pipeline

Making sure apps stay up to date is what most companies plan around. That's why it's important to make sure your CI/CD is also optimized. Otherwise, you're missing improvements on the way that updated code gets to customers.

By: Milecia McGregor

How to Measure DevOps Metrics

We measure metrics in our applications all the time to make sure performance is good and that we don't have any issues with the number of resources we have allocated. That's why we need to measure metrics in DevOps too. How do you know if your system is ok if you don't know what "ok" means?

By: Milecia McGregor

Why We Use Containers In DevOps

Docker containers are awesome for a lot of reasons and they are even better when combined with DevOps deployments.

By: Milecia McGregor

Getting Started With Docker

While not everyone uses Docker (yet), it's a great tool to know as a developer or someone in DevOps. Check out this super quick overview of getting started with Docker.

By: Milecia McGregor

Handling Large Releases with DevOps

Working with large systems in production can be hard. That's why it's important to have an automated system that can handle it for you.

By: Milecia McGregor

Can’t Teach an Old DAG New Tricks

Pipelines are everywhere in computing. CI/CD has build→test→deploy pipelines. Data science has compute features→train model→backtest pipelines. ETL literally means extract→transform→load. They are ubiquitous, everyone uses DAGs for them, and everyone is wrong.

By: Jonathan Marcus

How to Manage Multiple Environments with DevOps

There will be a crucial moment before every deploy to prod where you ask yourself if the code really works and if the changes are going to work for customers. One way to prevent that anxiety is to include multiple environments in your CI/CD pipeline.

By: Milecia McGregor

Top 15 Tools for Automating Security in DevOps

There are so many security tools available now that it can be hard to decide which ones to use. Here's a list of some of the most commonly used tools in DevOps security automation.

By: Milecia McGregor

Making a DevOps Strategy

When you know that you're organization is ready to start working with DevOps, you have to have a strategy ready to handle all of the changes that are coming.

By: Milecia McGregor

What is CI/CD for Developers

Working with CI/CD pipelines is becoming more common for developers, even if you aren't a DevOps engineer in particular. It helps to know how CI/CD works and how it fits into your role as the bug fixer/feature implementer.

By: Milecia McGregor

Learn From The Pros! DevOps Round-Up

Sometimes it helps to know that people are struggling with the same problems as you or that they have the same thoughts you do. This is a quick round-up of some of the consciousness from DevOps.

By: Milecia McGregor

What is Infrastructure As Code (IaC)

Infrastructure as code is used to describe a lot of tools in the DevOps space, but nobody talks about what that means in detail.

By: Milecia McGregor

The Developer's Deployment Checklist

Make sure that you know what you're deploying to production and how it's going to get there.

By: Milecia McGregor