15 articles tagged with "devops"
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!
Think npm install is harmless? Cool! Now explain why your app broke after updating ONE package. Let's dive into dependency hell, security nightmares, and the package.json chaos that keeps Node.js developers up at night!
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!
Coming from 7 years of fighting with npm's node_modules black holes and Composer's autoload nightmares, discovering Cargo felt like finding a package manager from the future. Here's why it's the best tool I've never had to debug!
After 7 years of production deployments, I learned the hard way: if you can't see what's happening in your K8s cluster, you're one outage away from disaster. Here's how to actually monitor Kubernetes without drowning in metrics!
Your AWS resources can't talk to each other, the internet, or you're getting mystery connection errors? After architecting production VPCs, here's how to fix AWS networking without crying into your coffee!
After 7 years of production deployments, I finally learned: Docker Compose isn't just for deployment - it's the secret weapon for local dev environments that don't suck!
Your CloudWatch bill is $300/month because you're logging EVERYTHING. After years of production AWS deployments, here's how I cut our logging costs by 85% without losing visibility!
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!
Think throwing your app in a container makes it secure? Think again! Let's talk about Docker security holes that'll keep you up at night - and how to fix them.