DevOps
Reducing Cloud Costs: 5 Simple Tweaks to Shrink Your AWS Bill
·7 mins
AWS
Cloud
DevOps
Cost-Optimization
FinOps
Tutorial
Cloud bills can spiral out of control fast. We show you 5 simple, practical AWS optimizations you can set up in minutes to save money and eliminate waste.
Terraform Remote Backends: Team Collaboration without State Problems
·4 mins
Terraform
GitLab
Hetzner
DevOps
Collaboration
Tutorial
When working with Terraform in a team, remote backends are required. We show you how to set up the GitLab HTTP backend and Hetzner Object Storage.
Why we built our own server monitoring tool (instead of using Prometheus or Datadog)
·4 mins
Monitoring
WatchGrid
SaaS
DevOps
Linux
Behind-the-Scenes
The monitoring dilemma: for simple setups and client VMs, Prometheus is too complex to maintain and Datadog is too expensive. Here is the story of why we built WatchGrid and why we took matters into our own hands.
uv: The Next Generation of Python Development
·5 mins
Python
Uv
Package Manager
DevOps
Tools
How-To
Introduction to the Python package manager uv. How does it work? In which areas can it be used? And the comparison with established tools like pip and venv.
CI/CD in Practice
·5 mins
DevOps
CI-CD
GitLab
GitHub Actions
Automation
A brief overview of what to consider with CI/CD and how to implement it successfully
Blue-Green Deployment with Kubernetes
·5 mins
Kubernetes
DevOps
Deployment
Zero Downtime
How-To
Minimize risks, maximize availability. Releases with minimal downtime and fast recovery from issues.