Colin WalkerCausal Consistency: A brief introductionAs developers most of us have heard of the basic consistency types like eventual consistency and strong consistency. There are, however, a…Mar 26, 2020Mar 26, 2020
Colin WalkerDeliverybot: The road to a production releaseOver the last few months hundreds of users have used Deliverybot to deploy code to a variety of platforms. From Kubernetes, Firebase to…Nov 20, 2019Nov 20, 2019
Colin WalkerAre you tracking DevOps metrics? You should beListen to the authors of the state of DevOps report on what makes for highly effective teams.Nov 8, 2019Nov 8, 2019
Colin WalkerinITNEXTWhat is the GitHub deployments API?A lesser known tool to ship your code that’s baked right in to GitHub.Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019
Colin WalkerinThe StartupDeploying to Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub ActionsThis tutorial will go through the basics of GitHub actions as well as deploying to Kubernetes using a pre-built Helm actionSep 15, 2019Sep 15, 2019
Colin WalkerinITNEXTSafe and automation friendly canary deployments with HelmCanary deployments are a very effective technique for mitigating risk. This post covers techniques for rolling them out in automation.Sep 14, 20192Sep 14, 20192
Colin WalkerinITNEXTBest practices for deploying to Kubernetes using HelmBest practices, guides and advice to keep your Kubernetes deployments on track.Sep 6, 2019Sep 6, 2019
Colin WalkerKustomize: Deploying applications using the new Kubernetes templating systemThis is part of a series on pragmatic, safe and repeatable ways of deploying to Kubernetes. These posts are built as part of building…Sep 2, 2019Sep 2, 2019
Colin WalkerinBattlesnakeLearning to build an Express API for BattlesnakeIn this tutorial we will build a basic HTTP server that controls a Battlesnake using Express.Mar 17, 2019Mar 17, 2019
Colin WalkerWhere is Serverless Going?Serverless as an idea has an incredible amount of hype and a huge amount of tools around it right now. But where is Serverless going?Oct 4, 2018Oct 4, 2018