DevOps

Couchbase Server 4.0 was recently released and can be downloaded and easily installed. Getting Started with Couchbase explains in very simple and easy steps on how to get started with Couchbase.  But when living in a container world, everything is a Docker image. And Couchbase also has a Docker image. This blog will explain how you can easily start a Couchbase Server 4.0 as a Docker image. Install ...

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Quick intro to Docker Machine After switching from boot2docker (deprecated) to Docker Machine (or should I rather say the Docker Toolbox on mac) on my laptop, and after playing around with Google Cloud Engine through Docker Machine, I was curious to see if I could manage all my Docker hosts, running on VPS or dedicated servers, from Docker Machine. Docker ...

Here at Codeship, we strongly believe in giving you as much control over your test and deployment infrastructure as possible. While we take care of running the infrastructure that powers your builds, you should be able to have full control over the environment. To that end, we’ve spent the last year working on our next generation elastic build infrastructure, the ...

On the heals of the Kinesis Firehose announcement, more people are going to be looking to integrate Kinesis with logging systems. (to expedite/simplify the ingestion of logs into S3 and Redshift)  Here is one take on solving that problem that integrates syslog-ng with Kinesis. First, let’s have a look at the syslog-ng configuration. In the syslog-ng configuration, you wire sources ...

Modern development increasingly involves making use of third parties. Whether it’s programming libraries from repositories such as npm or GitHub, using platforms like Azure and AWS, or just copying a code sample from Stack Overflow it’s fair to say that most code used in an application will be written by someone other than the main developer. Docker adds to the ...

CircleCI has recently published a very useful post “Why we’re no longer using Core.typed” that raises some important concerns w.r.t. Typed Clojure that in their particular case led to the cost overweighting the benefits. CircleCI has a long and positive relation to Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant, the main author of core.typed, that has addressed their concerns in his recent Strange Loop talk “Typed ...

On to a new week. There’s been plenty of travel for me recently, and it don’t stop soon. But I have some time to try out OpenShift Origin and run it on my Windows environment. There is an entry level blog-post how to setup everything from a couple of days ago. Now it was about time to just run a ...

Mailgun is email for developers. Mailgun has elegant REST API to send and receive emails from your mobile app. I know that many Appery.io developers send emails from their apps for registration, confirmation, and everything else. To make it simple to use the Mailgun API in an Appery.io, we have introduced a Mailgun plugin in Appery.io.         ...