Academy

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Vital production metrics and how to collect them
BY Colin Chartier
3 min read
Vital production metrics and how to collect them
Metric aggregation tools measure and store numerical data to understand what is happening in production. ...
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package-lock.json analyzer
BY Colin Chartier
1 min read
package-lock.json analyzer
Analyze what packages are slowing down "npm build" or "npm install" with this free online analyzer. ...
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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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webapp.io's Free 2 hour DevOps Engineering Course with FreeCodeCamp
BY Lyn Chen
3 min read
webapp.io's Free 2 hour DevOps Engineering Course with FreeCodeCamp
Why we made this course DevOps education has always been core to what we do here at webapp.io - making it easier for software developers and product stakeholders to master complex things without too much work. When DevOps first became popular and integral to a the software development lifecycle, ...
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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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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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