Charting a Course in Kubernetes with Helm
Easily bootstrap modern containerized deployments on any provider
Brandon Konkle
Devops
Brandon Konkle
Heroku's new Pipelines feature
Platform-As-A-Service hosting platforms like Heroku are really starting to shine. Today, Heroku announced an experimental feature that is really exciting to me - Pipelines [https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/7/10/heroku-pipelines-beta]. With this, you can run your entire lengthy build process on…
Brandon Konkle
Postgres 9 Streaming Replication and Django-Balancer
Over the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity to dig in to Postgres 9's streaming replication. What I found was a relatively easy way to configure a system for basic replication with very impressive speed. Postgres's streaming replication is an enhancement to the log-shipping wa…
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Django on uWSGI and Nginx
I recently moved Pegasus News [http://www.pegasusnews.com] from Perlbal, Lighttpd, and Apache to Nginx and uWSGI. We balance the traffic between 3 physical servers, and the systems were struggling under the load even after weeks of Apache conf tweaking. We began having issues with excessively slow p…
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Dynamically Updating IP Addresses with Update-ip
A couple of years ago, I write a post [http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2008/dec/9/automated-webfaction-dns-override-updates/] including a snippet to automatically update your DNS overrides with WebFaction. That script served my purpose well until I moved to an ISP that gave me a static IP. Recently,…
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