Best Practices

A collection of 24 posts
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CircleCI Alternative for tests with Docker Compose
BY Lyn Chen
6 min read
CircleCI Alternative for tests with Docker Compose
Summary: Why is CI/CD important?Is CircleCI the best CI/CD solution for your business?webapp.io capabilities missing in CircleCICircleCI consCircleCI vs. webapp.io CI/CD comparison summaryWhy businesses switch to webapp.ioHow to switch from CircleCI to webapp.io1. Why is CI/CD important?You'll notice a ...
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Top 3 Shippable alternatives in 2021
BY Lyn Chen
2 min read
Top 3 Shippable alternatives in 2021
On February 1st, 2021, Shippable announced their service shutdown 2 years following their acquisition by JFrog. This leaves Shippable customers with 3 months to find a new solution. Here are the top 3 Shippable alternatives in 2021 for cloud-based web apps. ...
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Serverless is more expensive than you'd expect
BY Colin Chartier
5 min read
Serverless is more expensive than you'd expect
The core idea for serverless is to specify a strategy for creating new webservers, instead of starting them yourself. That way if your product gets a huge burst of traffic, your cloud provider can start many copies of the webserver, and turn them off as the traffic subsides. ...
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What is an ephemeral environment?
BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is an ephemeral environment?
Ephemeral environments are temporary deployments that contain a self-contained version of your application, generally for every feature branch. ...
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How to get buy-in from your manager for DevOps tools
BY Lyn Chen
3 min read
How to get buy-in from your manager for DevOps tools
So you have a DevOps tool you love - how do you convince your manager that it's a good investment? Having been an employee in your shoes previously, read on to learn how you can champion DevOps tools in your organization if you're not the final decision maker. ...
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System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology. ...
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