Software engineer, type system nerd, Rust explorer, Postgres fan, Linux enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband and father, avid comic reader.
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. With this, you can run your entire lengthy build process on a staging app, verify that everything is working, and then push you…
Brandon Konkle
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 warm standby…
Brandon Konkle
I recently moved Pegasus News 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 page loads, request timeouts…
Brandon Konkle
A couple of years ago, I write a post 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, though, I moved to a new apartment and signed up for service through Clear's 4G netwo…
Brandon Konkle
At Pegasus News, we run custom deploy scripts that use pip to read through a requirements.txt file and keep our virtualenvs up to date. We use quite a few 3rd-party Django apps that we pull from PyPi, along with several apps - both internal and 3rd-party - from Github and Bitbucket. I'm a huge fan…
Brandon Konkle