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Development of most applications takes place in several disparate environments with the most common pattern being dev-staging-production. While it’s necessary for the source versions in each environment to differ it is quite useful to retain some level of data synchronicity between th...
CloudFlare is a popular, and accessible, CDN and website optimizer. If you’ve heard of Akamai then you know basically what CloudFlare does – they sit between your site and your users and accelerate your site’s content by edge-caching and other nifty on-the-fly techniques. CloudFlare a...
Twelve-factor apps also do not rely on the implicit existence of any system tools… While these tools may exist on many or even most systems, there is no guarantee that they will exist on all systems where the app may run in the future, or whether the version found on a future system w...
Gist is an incredible tool by Github for quickly sharing code, text and files. It has syntax highlighting and rendering for a huge number of programming languages including Markdown for text. For many techies, including myself, Gist is an indispensable tool for quickly sharing code an...
Blogging and/or setting up a simple site should be a simple proposition. There are a lot of great frameworks out there that handle the software portion of running such a site. However, you don’t just want a stock setup. You have to take into account proper asset caching for performanc...
Blogging and/or setting up a simple site should be a simple proposition. There are a lot of great frameworks out there that handle the software portion of running such a site. However, you don’t just want a stock setup. You have to take into account proper asset caching for performanc...