No. You can’t fairly compare Amazon OpsWorks to a CoreOS environment so we’re not going to do that. All I will say is that OpsWorks and Chef combined for an extremely slow and buggy deployment process which lead us to look for an alternate solution. We started experimenting with Docker a few months back to accelerate our… Read more »
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RabbitMQ vs Amazon SQS: A Short Comparison
Like many others, at Turret.IO we were tasked with deciding whether or not to use RabbitMQ or Amazon SQS for our message queueing needs. Since we operate a major of our operations inside AWS, we felt it necessary to at least give SQS a fair shot, even though quite a lot of developers seem to dislike it…. Read more »
Golapa v2: Dockerized Launch Page Written in Go
The latest version of Golapa comes with some significant changes, namely extending support beyond Google App Engine. While we are still supporting GAE builds using the same codebase, by dockerizing Golapa we’re making it a lot easier to develop locally and deploy almost anywhere Docker is supported. Launch pages are supposed to be simple, right?… Read more »
Improve Your Code Deployments with FPM
At Turret.IO, our stack includes software written in both Python and Go. While it’s relatively easy and efficient to deploy Python code that handles the website and API, shipping Go binaries isn’t nearly as elegant. Our initial methods involved deploying the source, compiling on each machine (since Go does compile incredibly fast), and startup scripts… Read more »
Amazon SNS Verification for Python
A great part of Amazon’s Simple Notification Service (SNS) is that it signs each notification, allowing your application to verify the signature before trusting any data inside of it. Of particular interest to us is an Amazon SES option that sends, complaint, hard bounce, and soft bounce messages via SNS rather than email. This allows… Read more »