Terraform Performance
Do you use HashiCorp’s Terraform as your infrastructure-as-code tool, and want to get more out of it? You’ve come to the right place. ..
Yes, You Can: Deploying Databases on Kubernetes with StatefulSets
Kubernetes is most famous as a tool for deploying containers. But in its current form, Kubernetes is eminently capable of deploying databases, ..
For the open Internet, against the EU Copyright Directive Article 13!
A committee of MEPs recently voted in favour of the overreaching EU Copyright Directive’s Article 13 regardless of opposition from influential ..
How Ruby Studio built trusted design on reliability
About Ruby Studio Ever since the establishment of Ruby Studio in 2010, we have been shuffling between hosting companies reselling average ..
Zero-downtime Deployment in Kubernetes with Jenkins
Ever since we added the Kubernetes Continuous Deploy and Azure Container Service plugins to the Jenkins update center, “How do I create ..
Security in Cloud Native Environments
The cloud native paradigm provides new opportunities for improving security. Technologies like containers and microservices enable a new level ..
Dynamic Ingress in Kubernetes
Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy applications that consist of many microservices, but one of the key challenges with this type of architecture ..
AWS ELB vs. NGINX Load Balancer
When building a new application or microservice on AWS, there are several options for handling load balancing in front of the application. ..
AWS Config vs. CloudTrail
AWS is a vast universe with over 100 cloud services, all geared to provide you with the most robust, reliable, and cost-effective cloud ..
Introduction to Python Virtual Environments: The Hows and Whys
A Python virtual environment is a package that makes it possible to have several virtual installations of Python with their own packages. ..
AWS Security vs. Azure Security
AWS and Azure are the top two cloud vendors. While AWS has a larger market share, Azure boasts of a larger customer base among the top Fortune ..
Getting Started with Varnish Cache
If you are creating a web application and researching how to scale it, or trying to tune the performance of an existing application, then ..
How SSD Can Improve the Response Time of Your Application
You likely know that solid state disks (SSDs) can dramatically improve performance, especially for data-intensive on-premises applications. ..
A DevOps Comparison of Cloud VPS Services
There are a myriad of online VPS (Virtual Private Server) services available now to choose from, and certainly a lot more than there were ..
Deploying Infrastructure in Terraform
Infrastructure management has changed a lot over the years. Historically, your traditional systems administrator would manage a rack full ..
Terraform Dependencies, Graph Theory and Lists
This blog provides some basic examples of dealing with dependencies in Terraform and the graph theory behind it and also some examples of utilising ..
Using Rollbar: Capturing and Logging All Python Exceptions
I recently wrote an article about tracking user exceptions using Rollbar. For the article, I implemented an experiment using Python. While ..