AWS can get very expensive as your company grows and you start using more of it’s features. There are however few easy ways to save money with AWS and make the most of cloud computing. 1. Use correct instance type In cloud it’s easy to resize instances as you need to always start small, and expand…
Month: July 2016
Reliable services with monit
Monit is a brilliant bit of software that monitors if your services are still up, and can reload them if they die. This definitely helps with first level of support when your servers get a little bit overworked. It can also check that the filesize, checksum and the permissions of the program remained the same….
Upstream PHP-FPM for better performance
PHP–FPM is a mighty beast, but throw too much it’s way and it will crash and burn. If you’re running your application via a PHP socket, consider load balancing the traffic and passing it to multiple PHP processes. Here you can learn how to improve PHP-FPM performance using upstream and nginx. In order to do…
Best Tech Books Summer 2016
I like to share tech books I recently read. Please have a look below for my latest recommendations. If you have any you think I should read please comment below. The Pheonix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford The Pheonix Project is one of those books that I always noted down as a “to…