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A Guide to Replatforming
An introduction to cloud replatforming, the different types of cloud migration, and how to successfully execute a cloud replatforming effort.
Jay Allen · Nov 18, 2022
A Guide to Autoscaling
Autoscaling is the process of automatically scaling an application's computing resources to meet consumer demand. Here’s how to set it up.
Jay Allen · Nov 15, 2022
AWS VPC Peering vs. PrivateLink: Which to Use
What are VPC Peering and PrivateLink? A review of both technologies and their use cases.
Jay Allen · Nov 1, 2022
What is Flexible Deployment?
What is flexible deployment? This blog post will go through the basics of flexible deployment and various deployment models.
Jay Allen · Oct 27, 2022
Tools for Managing Terraform Drift
What are some of the Terraform tools to manage drift? This blog compares popular tools and discusses what to look for when choosing a tool.
Jay Allen · Oct 6, 2022
CloudFormation vs Terraform
What are the differences between CloudFormation and Terraform? This blog looks at their respective modularity, management, support, etc.
Jay Allen · Sep 27, 2022
Detecting Terraform Drift
How does Terraform handle drift? We look at what drift is and how you can use Terraform to detect and manage it.
Jay Allen · Sep 19, 2022
Managing Terraform State with Terragrunt
Why do devs choose Terragrunt to manage Terraform state? A look at the challenges of managing Terraform and the use cases for Terragrunt.
Jay Allen · Sep 12, 2022
AWS CDK vs CloudFormation
AWS offers great Infrastructure-as-Code options – but which is best for you? This blog compares CDK vs CloudFormation and how to choose.
Jay Allen · Aug 26, 2022
DRY Infrastructure as Code: How Not to Repeat Yourself
What is DRY? And how can you apply it to your cloud infrastructure?
Jay Allen · Aug 24, 2022
AWS Cost Optimization: NAT Instances vs. NAT Gateways
A comparison of pricing structures for AWS NAT Instances and NAT Gateways - and how you can optimize costs for each.
Jay Allen · Jul 21, 2022
Guide to AWS DevOps Automation
Automation is part of the AWS DevOps promise. Let's look at the use cases, benefits, challenges, and foundations of automation in AWS DevOps.
Jay Allen · Jul 14, 2022
TinyStacks Completes SOC 2 Type I Data Security Audit
Enterprise-level security for our customers
Safeer Mohiuddin · Jun 24, 2022
A Guide to DevOps Automation Tools
Devops automation allows developers to focus on producing code – not infrastructure. Let’s look at tools that make that automation easier.
Jay Allen · Jun 23, 2022
Why we don't need Heroku 2.0
If you ask a software engineer what’s the best developer experience they’ve had, Heroku is by far the most common answer.
Safeer Mohiuddin · Jun 16, 2022
Migrating Databases from Heroku Postgres to AWS
Heroku Postgres is powerful in its simplicity. Yet more and more dev teams are migrating to AWS. Let’s look at why, and how to get started.
Jay Allen · Jun 13, 2022
A Guide to Heroku Autoscaling
Autoscaling in Heroku enables many developers to scale app performance more efficiently and consistently Yet, autoscaling in Heroku has its limitation
Jay Allen · Jun 6, 2022
Best Practices for DevOps Automation
DevOps automation will enable you to scale development efficiently– if you’ve got a plan. Some best practices for implementing automated DevOps.
Jay Allen · May 23, 2022
Jenkins vs. AWS CodeBuild: Which One Should You Use?
How does AWS's cloud-hosted service compare to the tried and true CI/CD solution?
Jay Allen · Apr 19, 2022
A Tale of Two DevOps Teams
What impact does a highly-skilled DevOps team have on your cloud spend? The answer may surprise you!
Jay Allen · Apr 12, 2022
AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. ECS: Which is Better?
Is Elastic Beanstalk a better way to get started with app deployment for AWS newbies? We look at the facts.
Jay Allen · Mar 22, 2022
CircleCI vs. GitHub Actions: Which is Better?
Which tool is best for those starting out on their DevOps journey? Check out our detailed deep dive.
Jay Allen · Feb 25, 2022
API Gateway REST vs. HTTP API: What Are The Differences?
How do these two versions of the same technology differ? A quick rundown of whether REST or HTTP APIs represent the best investment.
Jay Allen · Feb 1, 2022
Aiven vs. Direct AWS Data Hosting: Which is Better?
When should you use Aiven vs. AWS to host your databases and other essential data storage infrastructure? We ran the numbers and...
Jay Allen · Jan 25, 2022
Canary Testing Your Backend API on AWS
How canary testing can help you safely validate changes to your APIs in production.
Jay Allen · Jan 15, 2022
What Does a DevOps Engineer Do?
Looking to hire a DevOps Engineer? Here's what to look for - and what to ask during the interview process.
Jay Allen · Jan 5, 2022
Approval Workflow: Manual and Automated Approvals in CI/CD
What are manual and automated approvals? Which one should you use - and when?
Jay Allen · Dec 28, 2021
What are Stacks, Stages, and Environments?
A quick run-down of three central concepts in DevOps cloud deployments - and how ephemeral environments are paving new ground.
Jay Allen · Dec 16, 2021
Dev Environments: An Essential Tool for Software Quality
Why Infrastructure as Code isn't just for production deployments.
Jay Allen · Dec 13, 2021
Flask CRUD API on AWS
Flask, Postgres and AWS in 15 min!
Francesco Ciulla · Nov 29, 2021
A Guide to Stacks and Stages on AWS
How to configure stages and multiple stacks for your application on AWS
Jay Allen · Nov 24, 2021
Flask CRUD API with Postgres
Build a Flask CRUD API with Postgres locally in 15 min!
Francesco Ciulla · Nov 20, 2021
Migrating DigitalOcean database to AWS
Hot to migrate a Postgres database from Digital Ocean to AWS RDS
Francesco Ciulla · Oct 15, 2021
Use multiple Docker images on the same ECS service
Node.js app linked to Prometheus app using Docker and ECS
Francesco Ciulla · Oct 6, 2021
When to Use AWS Lambda vs Docker
Who wins when it comes to microservice architecture implementation?
Jay Allen · Sep 24, 2021
CRUD API Express with RDS, ECS and Docker
Node.js, Docker, ECR, ECS, RDS, Postgres in a single Article
Francesco Ciulla · Sep 18, 2021
ECS: Serverless or Not? Fargate vs. EC2 Clusters
What are the pros and cons of Fargate vs EC2?
Jay Allen · Sep 16, 2021
DigitalOcean vs AWS: Migrating from Spaces to S3
Why would you migrate off of DigitalOcean to AWS - and how? We cover the reasons plus offer a step-by-step guide to migrating your file storage.
Jay Allen · Sep 10, 2021
Migrate local database on Docker container to AWS
How to migrate your local Postgres Database do AWS RDS (Relational Database Service)
Francesco Cuilla · Sep 8, 2021
Service Discovery with AWS Cloud Map
Simply microservices application development with this out-of-the-box service from AWS.
Jay Allen · Sep 1, 2021
Take your side project to prod on AWS using ECR and ECS
How to take your side project and deploy it on AWS!
Francesco Ciulla · Aug 27, 2021
Using CodeBuild and CodePipeline to Deploy AWS Applications Easily
Learn how these two AWS features work together in perfect harmony.
Jay Allen · Aug 25, 2021
How to create an Express app with a Local Postgres Database and Docker Compose
How to handle multiple containers with a Node.js and Postgres example
Francesco Ciulla · Aug 13, 2021
AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) vs. API Gateway: Which is Better?
How do AWS Application Load Balancers and API Gateway compare in terms of features?
Jay Allen · Aug 12, 2021
How to persist data in Docker: Volumes
What are Docker Volumes and why do we need them? Two Examples
Francesco Ciulla · Aug 5, 2021
Local CRUD API Express App with Docker in 5 min
A local CRUD Express API Docker-ized in 5 min
Zayd Simjee · Jul 27, 2021
Hello World Express App with Docker
Step-by-step process of Dockerization of a Node.js application, using Express as the application framework
Zayd Simjee · Jul 16, 2021
Introducing TinyStacks
A new way to launch anything in your AWS cloud. Deploy scalable apps instantly
Zayd Simjee · Jun 25, 2021
Launch an Express Typescript Server on AWS that updates on "git push"
A simple guide to run any service on AWS with a CI/CD pipeline
Zayd Simjee · Jun 24, 2021
Easy Load Testing: Piece of Mind on a Budget
Everyone should be load testing. Here's how to do it using freely available command line tools.
Zayd Simjee · Jun 21, 2021
AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) vs API Gateway - Pricing
ALB and API Gateway have different feature sets. But how do they compare when it comes to pricing? A cost breakdown - and our recommendations.
Zayd Simjee · Jun 14, 2021