My notes on DevOps Kungfu
Chef Style DevOps Kungfu - Adam Jacob Keynote - ChefConf 2015
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Getting Better All the Time
I have had some great success lately with improving my overall health and wellness. I have been able to significantly reduce my fatigue, aches and pains, and headaches by making some life-style changes.
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IP2Location + Varnish = Geocentric Supercaching
My friend and coworker @brettfitzgerald has developed a front-end load-balancer that uses a combination of Varnish and the IP2Location database to perform some geocentric caching that caches websites according to a user's country and timezone. This allows for websites to be cached and served up with unique content based on the user's location. Not a big deal if you have 3…
WP Cards
I developed WP Cards to introduced the card design concept to WordPress. You can find the plugin files here.
“Cards” have become very popular in the last couple of years since the launch of Google Now (http://www.google.com/landing/now/#cards). Many leading social networks have also used card design on their sites, including Twitter, Pinterest, and Spotify.
Cards are page elements that are…
5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application | DigitalOcean
When deciding which server architecture to use for your environment, there are many factors to consider, such as performance, scalability, availability, reliability, cost, and ease of management.
In this post, Mitchell Anicas outlines a list of commonly used server setups, with a short description of each, including pros and cons. Keep in mind that all of the concepts covered here can be used in various combinations with one another, and that every environment has different requirements, so there is no single, correct configuration.
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A great source for free "cover" images for your website
A friend recently referred me to this site that offers free ("do whatever you want") hi-resolution photos.
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Innovation How-To: Scott Cook’s SXSW 2014 Toolkit
Intuit’s founder Scott Cook spoke to a room full of entrepreneurs at SXSW Interactive 2014′s Startup Village. In this session, he shared some of the tools used at Intuit to create great products, and in the spirit of learning by doing, he ran exercises in real-time with the audience. Wish you could have been there?
100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive
For exactly one year, from May 1, 2013, through May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey would devour everything he could get his hands on about productivity, and write every day about the lessons he learned on A Year of Productivity.
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10 Lessons Learned So Far With Lean
I am a part of a team that is trying to become more lean, here are a list of 10 lessons that we have learned so far…
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How I Migrated From Apache to NGINX
Steps to Migrating from Apache2 to NGINX
First, we will install NGINX and PHP-FPM:
sudo apt-get install nginx php5-fpm
Next, we will need to update the PHP-FPM config at /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
My server has 4 cores, so this is what my www.conf file looks like:
user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
worker_cpu_affinity 0001 0010 0100 1000;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 2048;
}
http…