On application deployment, we often want associated services ready to go. After all, what good is a web application without a database? Ideally, when you first deployed your application, a database and role would automatically be created using the same settings that your application uses. In this post I’ll discuss two methods of sharing database ...
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To reduce the amount of setup required to start using Deb Constrictor for new projects, build configurations now allow for multiple parents (as of version 0.7). Now, when writing configurations, your build-config.json can inherit from a parent project config containing the project name, and a “base” config that defines the type of project ...
Last update on Feb. 26, 2019.
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The two hardest things in computer science are: naming things, off-by-one errors, and cache invalidation. This post is about the latter, specifically, how to invalidate your users’ browser cache when your static files have changed.
I found out about this one weird trick (doctors hate him) a few years ago but I think it bears ...
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Using Docker for a reproducible deployment environment! Now that I have your attention with some buzzwords, welcome to the second of three parts in my series on how I deploy this site using Deb Constrictor. The last post was about building and deploying the application code, this one is about building the Python virtual environment ...
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Deb Constrictor (my pure-Python DPKG building application) adds many features in version 0.3 to make building packages easier and to keep your configurations DRY. This is part one of three posts of how I use Deb Constrictor to build and release this web site (the one you’re reading right now).
The application is released ...
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