Colin Chartier

Colin Chartier

Colin is co-founder & CEO at webapp.io. He previously worked as CTO at ParseHub and as a software design lecturer at the University of Toronto. You can reach him at colin@webapp.io
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LayerCI has rebranded to webapp.io
BY Colin Chartier
1 min read
LayerCI has rebranded to webapp.io
LayerCI.com has moved to webapp.io with no functionality changes. It's purely a rebrand. ...
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What is CI?
BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is CI?
Continuous Integration (CI) refers to developers continuously pushing small changes to a central Git repository numerous times per day. These changes are verified by automated software that runs comprehensive tests and ensures that no major issues are ever seen by customers. ...
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Footer Signalling
BY Colin Chartier
3 min read
Footer Signalling
When you visit a website, you generally make a judgement about its trustworthiness and reliability within a minute. Footer signaling is a big part of that. ...
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What is Log Aggregation?
BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is Log Aggregation?
What is Log Aggregation? It's a way of collecting and tagging application logs from many different services into a single dashboard that can easily be searched. ...
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What is Code Coverage?
BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is Code Coverage?
Code Coverage quantitatively measures how comprehensive a code base's tests are. Increasing code coverage often increases stability and reduces bugs. ...
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What is Test Driven Development?
BY Colin Chartier
2 min read
What is Test Driven Development?
Test driven development is a coding methodology where tests are written before the code is written. ...
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Service discovery
BY Colin Chartier
6 min read
Service discovery
Service discovery is how different services "learn" about each-other in order to connect. ...
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Crypto miners are killing free CI
BY Colin Chartier
3 min read
Crypto miners are killing free CI
CI providers like webapp.io, GitLab, TravisCI, and Shippable are all worsening or shutting down their free tiers due to cryptocurrency mining attacks. ...
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The difference between VMs and containers
BY Colin Chartier
5 min read
The difference between VMs and containers
The primary difference between Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers is that the former is more powerful, but the latter is faster. ...
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