Your environment configurations are probably a mess

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve found that configuring your application using environment variables works really well because it forces you to build an environment-agnostic system that can be deployed to anywhere by adjusting a set of variables that are read by your application at run-time.   This strategy is in-line with 12-factor apps and also… Read more »

Developing and Deploying with GitHub and CircleCI

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CircleCI has quickly become one of the dominating continuous integration platforms available today, boasting support for Docker, Android, and now iOS through the use of OS X virtual machines. GitHub has been the de facto standard for hosting Git repositories for some time now. While worthy competitors do exist, GitHub‘s ability to innovate around a piece of freely available version control software… Read more »

A Better Dockerized MySQL

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MySQL still plays a large part in many software stacks and while many IaaS vendors have their own hosted versions (i.e. Amazon RDS), it’s still fairly common to run MySQL in a Docker container, especially in development environments. One common problem that’s encountered with MySQL is initializing it before its use and having your application connect only after initialization is complete…. Read more »