devops on Dr. SeViR

Discovering compiled Go applications

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0200

For a little while now I’ve been deeply interested in Go, not so much as a language (although I find it appealing) but because of all the applications that have been built with it.

The main advantage of applications built with Go is that they compile into a single executable. As a rule, you can build executables for Windows, Linux and MacOSX from the same code, just by telling the compiler which system you want to target.

Introduction to Vagrant, the best way to set up a web project. Part I

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:00:00 +0200

After a couple of years of maturing, Vagrant has become one of the most widely used tools among web developers, sysadmins and any IT professional who wants to test a server environment, whether Linux or Windows (though mostly Linux).

For those who haven’t come across it, Vagrant is a tool that lets you spin up a preconfigured virtual machine (for VirtualBox, VirtualPC or VMware) with remote access in just a few minutes, and share it easily.

Deployer, a good alternative to Capistrano

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:00:00 +0200

For a long time at DIGIO we’ve been going round in circles about how to deploy our projects to the server better. Our workflow was based on a Git repository that was updated from the server with a simple git pull, so if anything went wrong we could reset to a version in the Git history.