8 articles tagged with "deployment"
After countless deployments where I wondered 'wait, which version is running in prod?', I discovered GitOps - where Git isn't just your code repository, it's your deployment control center. Here's why treating Git as your single source of truth changed everything!
After 7 years of production deployments, I've been rate-limited by Docker Hub during critical deploys way too many times. Here's how I escaped Docker Hub jail and cut our registry costs by 80%!
After 7 years of production deployments and one very public GitHub leak that cost us $3,000 in AWS charges, I learned that managing secrets isn't optional - it's survival. Here's how to stop hardcoding passwords like it's 2005!
After 7 years of production deployments and countless 3 AM incidents, I learned that health checks aren't optional - they're the difference between 'my app is down' and 'my app auto-heals itself.' Here's how to stop shooting yourself in the foot!
After 7 years deploying production apps, I finally bit the bullet and learned Kubernetes. Turns out it's not as scary as the YAML makes it look. Here's what I wish someone had told me before I spent 3 days debugging a typo in my deployment config!
Your Docker image is 2GB and takes 10 minutes to deploy? After countless production deployments, I learned that multi-stage builds can shrink images by 90% - here's how to stop shipping garbage to production!
Still showing 'Site under maintenance' during deploys? After 7 years of production deployments, here's how I went from scary Friday night releases to confident anytime deploys - without downtime!
Committing API keys to Git? Hardcoding database passwords? Let's talk about managing configs and secrets the RIGHT way - because 'It works on my machine' isn't a deployment strategy!