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3 Reasons Why Your Team Needs Rituals
It’s the same every morning: you get up and grab your morning coffee. No matter whether you brew it at home or fetch it on the road, your morning coffee is a ritual you never want to miss. A ritual is...
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Supporting Millions of Pretty URL Rewrites in Nginx with Lua and Redis
Alexandre Duret-Lutz About a year ago, I was tasked with greatly expanding our url rewrite capabilities. Our file based, nginx rewrites were becoming a performance bottleneck and we needed to make an...
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Enable Your Teams to Rapidly Ship and Operate Quality Software
Steve Jurvetson How often do your development teams release to production? Who gets the alert in the middle of the night when everything crashes and burns? Do these questions make you uncomfortable or...
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Kanban vs Scrum vs Agile
raaphorst When inflexible and wasteful software development processes are making your organization inefficient, it’s time to introduce an agile methodology. Kanban vs Scrum then becomes an essential...
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Knife EC2: Manage Amazon EC2 Instances With Chef
r. nial bradshaw Chef enables you to automate your infrastructure. It provides a command line tool called knife to help you manage your configurations. Using the knife EC2 plugin you can manage your...
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Technical Debt
You have to make that release date. You need more time to get the structure of your modules right, but you don’t have it. Hitting the release date is more important than cleaning your code, so you...
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Write your own Slack chatbot in Golang
Chatbots are all the rage nowadays so I’ll show you how to plug one into your own Slack channel. It’s easy, fun and, best of all, completely free! I. Preparation Of course, you’ll need a Slack team...
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Three things you need to stop doing when becoming an engineering manager
Rainer Stropek You are a great software engineer with years of experience under your belt. You’ve seen too many technologies come and go to easily fall for the next hyped framework. You choose the...
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Secure GitHub Deployments to Your Home
I’m a cheap bastard when it comes to online services. All my repositories have been publicly hosted on GitHub well before Microsoft swooped in and offered unlimited private repos. Since around 2016,...
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Managing Github Secrets with Vault
I’m a huge fan of GitHub actions and organization level secrets, but you can’t see what the current secret is w/i GitHub (w/o deploying a container somewhere with it exported as an ENV var). I tried...
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