by Visakh S | Sep 15, 2015 | Docker, Latest
Release early, release often. And listen to your customers. This famous philosophy (abbreviated RERO) by Eric Raymond is now the de-facto product planning strategy of web application developers. It enables developers to quickly react to customer needs, and shape their...
by Visakh S | Aug 28, 2015 | Server Management, WordPress
Everyone loves a fast website. Even search engines such as Google say a site should respond within 200 milliseconds [1]. This means you should keep your site lightning fast not just to keep your customers happy, but to retain your SEO rankings. From image optimization...
by Visakh S | Aug 26, 2015 | Apache, Docker, Server Administration, Server Management
If you are an early adopter of Docker, chances are that you are running it on a popular distro like Red Hat, CentOS or Ubuntu. This was the case with a few web application systems we managed. We soon realized that the extra services that CentOS ran just ate up...
by Visakh S | Aug 24, 2015 | Docker, Server Management, Technical Support
1. Docker installed – Check. 2. Get image – Check. 3. Deploy container – Check. With Docker, deployment is as easy as that. Sysadmins and developers have moved away from the VPS days, and have settled into the easy lives of getting deployments done...
by Visakh S | Aug 14, 2015 | Docker, Server Administration
DevOps engineers have come to rely on configuration management tools like Puppet, SaltStack, Chef and Ansible for faster deployments and minimizing errors. However, the quest for the perfect deployment solution is still on. As is the fate of any code, Puppet...