Discover why simpler infrastructure beats autoscaling for startups. Learn about evolving from shared servers to cloud solutions, the need for testing, and minimalist approaches. Essential for founders and engineers seeking smart infrastructure strategies.
Sometimes the code really is unmaintainable and non-upgradeable. Other times, it might just be old and written in a technology that’s dated or deprecated. Learning how to work with legacy code is a skill in itself. Here’s our playbook for modernizing that old PHP project.
Microservices are a very popular architectural approach — maybe too popular! Here's why it might not be ideal for your organization.
Do you deploy every day? Your team probably should. Here's why.
On one of our projects, users complained about a performance issue. They were experiencing loading spinners and timeouts when using the application. When we evaluated
“Wait, what? Cloud Run is serverless!” I hear you shout in confusion as you jump out of your chair. Well, give me a chance to
DigitalOcean | Cloud Infrastructure for DevelopersAn ocean of simple, scalable cloud solutions.Cloud Infrastructure for DevelopersDave McCarthyResearch Vice President, IDC If you’ve used Terraform before
About a year ago, I wrote about managing your ports with Traefik in your local development environment. That blog post described how to set up
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Docker during our daily development work. It’s still one of the easiest ways to
When writing tests, I often find myself switching between the IDE and terminal windows to actually run the tests. On projects with very large test
One of the most important things when starting to work on a project is to set up a local development environment. For me, this should
If you have a really simple PHP application that you deploy to a single server, deploying it basically boils down to transferring the source code
Reading tip: Learn how to run an ssh tunnel in your docker based development environment to easily connect to mysql or other non-http services.
At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling
One of the first steps when you are deploying an application with Docker Swarm or Kubernetes is to publish the image in a registry. It
