Just posted on my main webpage in the other section, a PDF of a presentation I gave at lunch one day at work.
Just posted on my main webpage in the other section, a PDF of a presentation I gave at lunch one day at work.
There is a common pattern I’ve seen, in guides about Ruby on Rails deployment via Capistrano, to setup a maintenance pages or a maintenance mode. The guides help you configure nginx such that the existence of the maintenance page causes the nginx proxy to return the maintenance page instead of forwarding on to the unicorn/puma/passenger server.
It is easy to create a hugely complex disaster recovery plan with all kinds of redundancy and failover. It is also easy to spend a ton of money doing so. There are cases however, where a daily snapshot, and the ability to boot up that most recent snapshot, is plenty of protection.
Coming up at the end of April, it will have been one year since I relaunched my website and blog. I’m going to take this opportunity to reflect on this past year.
Less than a year ago I posted my podcast listening playlist for the spring of 2015. Since then I’ve kept up with many of those podcasts, and I gave you an update of changes to my playlist in the fall of 2015.
Testing. I love it. It is crucial to good software development. Running those tests continually and providing quick feedback to developers is important. At work, we use Jenkins to provide our continuous integration.
A new Certificate Authority that is free, automated, and open. Check out the Let’s Encrypt website for more information.