List/Grid DevOps Subscribe to the RSS feed of category DevOps
Tomcat Clustering Series Part 5 : NginX as Load Balancer
This is my fifth part of the Tomcat Clustering Series.[Check the video below for better understanding]. In this post we are going to discuss how to replace Apache http load balancer ...
Releasing more often drives better Dev and better Ops
One of the most important decisions that we made as a company was to release less software, more often. After we went live, we tried to deliver updates quarterly, because until then ...
Varnish Cache: Optimizing for Mobile Devices
Recently, I wrote about using Varnish Cache to speed up websites. However, not all websites appear identically on all devices. For example, many web applications will deliver different ...
Tooling for an Iterative Infrastructure
Iteration is valuable to more than just application development; design also greatly benefits. But the benefits don’t stop there — infrastructure can gain as well. A big portion ...
Good & Bad Patterns in Development and Operations
As part of my role at a new company I’ve been asked to provide feedback about structuring Dev & Ops as well as what sorts of things work and don’t. I certainly don’t claim ...
Speeding Up Your Website with Varnish
Varnish Cache is a popular caching HTTP reverse proxy. Awhile back, I wrote about using nginx as a reverse proxy. But while nginx is great as a reverse proxy, it doesn’t perform caching. ...
Continuous Deployment: Are You Afraid It Might Work?
I’ve been wondering for a few years now, why it’s so hard to get companies to prioritize the work that I feel is important. I mean, I’m telling you how to do it and you aren’t ...
Super Quick Tomcat App Deployment Using a PULL Script
If you managed to read my last blog you’ll remember that I demonstrated a simple script for creating a new tomcat installation on a server by splitting the tomcat binaries from ...
Super Fast Tomcat Installation using FTP and Version Control
When talking about Continuous Delivery one of the tests that both Martin Fowler and Jez Humble often mention is their ‘flame thrower’ test. It goes something like this: ...
Chef Solo with Capistrano
Not that long ago, I wrote about a standalone Puppet pattern that Mike English and I use in conjunction with Capistrano to provision and manage our server configurations. While we still ...
