DevOps

Water pipes

Deployment and release strategies

When you build a new website, going live is relatively easy. You get ahold of a domain name,…

Snag in Mt Rainier National Park

Ask Freelock: "Traditional hosts" vs "cloud providers"

A client asks about yet another hosting option:

The VPS-2000HA-S includes the following…

Hammer and bent nails

WordPress reaches 5.0!

A major new release for WordPress dropped today -- perhaps the one with the biggest impact in…

Nerd Mountain

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Go Ahead Make Changes in Prod! We Got Your Back

Have you ever heard the one about the web developer who goes in to make one last change to the…

Operational flow

How do you keep a high bar of quality on dozens of sites every day?

DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the…

Drupal vs WordPress: Why there are no objective comparisons

WordPress versus Drupal. Republican versus Democrat. Two debates where the differences seem so…

Lease Crutcher Lewis

In December of 2013, we were contacted by Lease Crutcher Lewis to take over their hosting.…

Workers

Git Branch Strategy meets Continuous Deployment

Our branch strategy based on Git Flow did not survive. It was getting a bit old in the tooth,…

Bot

A Flash of Insight

Its name is Watney. Watney lives in Matrix. Watney is a bot I created about 6 months ago to…

Quality-oriented Drupal DevOps - Session recording

The audio quality isn't the best, but the talk I gave yesterday…