In this post, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the engineering work required to change a critical platform component with code paths that are exercised billions of times a day while minimizing service disruptions and maintaining SLA for our customers. We…

By default, Git completely ignores directories because it’s an intentional design choice. Since empty dirs don’t include any files or content, therefore they’re ignored. And sometimes, we might need to add an empty directory in a repo for some reason. There…

Ops is hard. What have learned so far?

GitHub now supports SSH commit verification, so you can sign commits and tags locally using a self-generated SSH public key, which will give others confidence about the origin of a…

Instant, easy, and predictable development environments - jetify-com/devbox

Another cool command by Git and this time we are going to try to list all local (unpushed) commits. As always, there’s more than one way to shine a penny.

A friend of mine once quipped that Amazon must’ve retained a Chief Jargon Officer in the early days of AWS—Bezos’s infrastructure titan isn’t exactly known for descriptive product names. Between EC2, Redshift, Route 53, and dozens of other polygon-logo’d…

The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), more specifically the Ready phase of CAF, includes Enterprise-Scale. Learn more about CAF in my…

encrypted git on s3. Contribute to nathants/git-remote-aws development by creating an account on GitHub.

Learn how to set up a local Node.js development environment using Docker with this step-by-step guide!

Here’s a TL;DR version on how to delete local and remote Git branches. It’s a risk-free if you are doing it on your own repos; however, when working with other people it’s a best practice not to remove any remote branch by your own as there must be Git branch…

Why are more security teams adopting Firecracker? How secure is it, and how suitable is it for your organization? This guide dives into this trending innovation.

Time to compare yet another somehow confusing Git commands. This time being restore, reset, revert and rebase. Obviously, I won’t be doing a deep dive, and I’ll try to be as plain as possible, so you could get the basic understanding. Working tree and working…

Here’s a Git interview question: “What’s the difference between HEAD, working tree and index in Git?”. First, we need to understand the usual Git workflow: | Working tree | Staging area | .git directory (local repo) | Remote repository | |--------------|…

I'm concerned about the longevity of the domains I register. I want my domains to be available for as long as possible. But it seems that every year prices rise - and the discount often provided for a new domain rarely continues into subsequent years. So…

Learn how to Dockerize Alpine for your next application or server with our guide on how to use the Alpine Docker Official Image.

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