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What’s the difference: A/B Testing VS Blue/Green Deployment?

Community / DevOps / General
2018-11-162018-11-16

In today's technology world many words and phrases come and go and even change meaning depending on the context. In this article we look at two similar sounding, and somewhat related, distinct terms: A / B Testing and Blue / Green Deployments.

Windows 10 WSL Ubuntu 18.04 proxy configuration for apt.

General
2018-11-152018-11-15

Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can be a great tool for dev's, op's, and admin's alike.

Is HTTP/2 really worth it?

Automated Testing / AWS / Gatling.io / Lightsail / Terraform
2018-11-122018-11-12

Just how much performance does HTTP2 offer? Like many other things in technology; it depends. Rea on to learn the benefits and pitfalls of using HTTP/2.

Passing Data Into Gatling from the Command Line

AT / CI / CD / Automated Testing / Gatling.io / Load Testing
2018-11-082018-11-08

Passing data into a Gatling load simulation is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Set up WordPress using Ansible and Terraform

Ansible / AWS / Terraform
2018-11-072018-11-08

Create a Wordpress server in minutes using Ansible and Terraform.

Just how effective is web server caching? Very.

DevOps / Galting / Lightsail / Load Testing / nginx / PHP
2018-11-072018-11-07

Learn how to setup a high load CMS for less than the cost of lunch.

CloudWatch Agent on Lightsail

AWS / CloudWatch / DevOps / Lightsail
2018-11-062018-11-06

Lightsail is an affordable low barrier VPS service from AWS; but it lacks proper monitoring and metrics. Herein read how to use CloudWatch with Lightsail compute instances.

What’s the difference: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment.

Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration / DevOps
2018-11-012018-11-01

DevOps has a bunch of terms, many of which are mixed up, misused, or just plain wrongly defined. Here we break down three of the most common terms in layman's terms.

Testing 101 by Aly Sivji via Dev.to

Automated Testing / Community / DevOps
2018-11-012018-11-01

Testing 101 by Aly Sivji via Dev.to

‘SpotInst’; use EC2 instance types dynamically to save money.

AWS / Cloud Computing / Community / DevOps
2018-10-312018-10-31

Save money, use more spot instances.