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2 years ago
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Correlating Continuous Deployments with Application Metrics using Grafana's Github Plugin

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GitOps is becoming the standard of doing continuous deployments. Define your application state in Git, automatically update and change the state when pull requests are merged. This means that deployments happens continuously, usually multiple times a day. There's a good …


3 years ago
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Migrating Kubernetes PersistentVolumes across Regions and AZs on AWS

4 min read

Persistent volumes in AWS are tied to one Availability Zone(AZ), therefore if you were to create a cluster in an AZ where the volume is not created in you would not be able to use it. You will need to …


3 years ago
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Creating a Low Cost Managed Kubernetes Cluster for Personal Development using Terraform

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Kubernetes is an open-source system that's popular amongst developers. It automatically deploys, scales, and manages containerized applications. Yet for those working outside of the traditional startup or corporate setting, Kubernetes can be CPU and memory-intensive, disincentivizing developers from using a …


3 years ago
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Quick, Pretty and Easy Maintenance Page using Cloudflare Workers & Terraform

3 min read

Maintenance pages are a neat way to inform your users that there are operational changes that require downtime. Cloudflare Workers allows you to execute Javascript and serve HTML close to your users and when Cloudflare manages your DNS it makes …


3 years ago
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Github's Awesome Repository Traffic Analytics

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As someone that loves all types of metrics I was really glad to have discovered Github's traffic analytics. They've been around for a while, but I never knew about them and I wanted to share an introduction to the analytics.


3 years ago
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Django A/B testing with Google Optimize

8 min read

Struggling to determine your product’s future path? A/B testing helps you decide if you should take the road less traveled by. To understand your users and their needs, start by creating two product variations and collecting data points. Google Optimize …


4 years ago
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Monitoring Kubernetes InitContainers with Prometheus

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Kubernetes InitContainers are a neat way to run arbitrary code before your container starts. It ensures that certain pre-conditions are met before your app is up and running. For example it allows you to: - run database migrations with Django …


4 years ago
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6 ways to speed up your CI

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Waiting for CI to finish slows down development and can be extremely annoying, especially when CI fails and you have to run it again. Let's take a look into approaches on how to speed up your CI and minimize the …


4 years ago
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Recipes when building a headless CMS with Wagtail's API

3 min read

Recently I built a headless CMS using Wagtail's API as a backend with NextJS/React/Redux as a frontend. Building the API I ran into some small issues with Image URL data, the API representation of snippets and creating a fully customized …


4 years ago
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Creating Group Webhooks with Templates for Gitlab CI

3 min read

Gitlab stores a vast majority of their functionality into their paid packages. Group webhooks is one of them and if your using a group runner, the group webhook becomes sought after. This is easily achievable without using a paid plan …