7th May, 2013 by Tom Wardill
A post examining how and why Server Density v2 has relied upon Vagrant and Puppet during the build stages and the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. Read more
30th April, 2013 by Wes Mason
Sockii - a Node.js daemon which aggregates multiple WebSocket connections and proxies them to a single socket to the user's browser Read more
25th April, 2013 by Sebastian Pawluś
A post examining how we use Celery to queue multiple service monitoring requests and take averages etc. Read more
18th April, 2013 by David Mytton
MongoDB benchmarks looking at write performance with write concern, journalling, SSDs vs spinning disks, replication and benchmarking write query times. Read more
4th April, 2013 by David Mytton
SLAs aren't really worth much money but they can have other uses. The best way to get something fixed is to make not fixing it cost something! Read more
28th March, 2013 by David Mytton
What kind of devices do devops London Twitter users have? How do they interact with ads and what kind of engagement is there across genders? Read more
21st March, 2013 by David Mytton
Tips and tricks for how Server Density grew their ops team from 1 founder + 1 server to a whole team managing hundreds of servers for a growing SaaS app. Read more
14th March, 2013 by David Mytton
MongoDB findOne is orders of magnitude slower than find if you just checking whether a document exists. Learn when you should use findOne or find queries. Read more
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