
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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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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BY Lyn Chen
2 min read
HealthTech: how Vitau moves faster with demo environments for docker compose
Vitau is a HealthTech company. They're the leading subscription pharmacy for chronic disease patients in Mexico - delivering both prescription medicine and insurance reimbursements. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is a blue/green deployment?
Blue/green deployments are a strategy to deploy a new version of an application. They work by starting an entirely new instance of the application, and then routing traffic over to it. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
Linting best practices
Linters are programs that look at a program's source code and find problems automatically. They are a common feature of pull request automation because they ensure that "obvious" bugs do not make it to production. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is DevOps?
DevOps is a methodology that helps engineering teams build better products by continuously integrating user feedback. ...
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BY Lydia Zomparelli
6 min read
What is Jenkins Used For?
Jenkins is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tool. It improves the development lifecycle by automating software building, testing, and deployment. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
3 min read
What are rolling deployments?
Rolling deployments are a strategy to deploy a new version of an application without causing downtime. They work by creating a single instance of the new version of an application, then shutting off one instance of the old version until all instances have been upgraded. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
2 min read
What is autoscaling?
Autoscaling automates horizontal scaling to ensure that the number of workers is proportional to the load on the system. ...
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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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