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I've found that I like running Gulp inside of a container to both run Node inside of something ephemeral and because Docker doesn't miss file changes (like Virtualbox or NFS file sharing does). See how I do that here!
The logs for your applications on Forge can get large - see how to manage their size automatically using logrotate!
See how we saved ourselves some trouble by installing New Relic, capitalizing on it's free tier for server monitoring.
I've gotten a few questions about how MySQL replication works within RDS. Amazon has a few concepts going on which makes the picture of how everything fits together a little hazy. Here's my attempt at clearing up how the RDS service works!
When you put your web application behind a load balancer, or any type of reverse proxy, you immediately need to take some important factors into consideration. This article will cover those considerations, as well as discuss common solutions.
Hosting web applications is complex. Learn what goes into hosting web applications of any language.
This will cover differences in passing requests off from Apache to a FastCGI process in Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04.
Start using Docker now! These are the basics to get up and running, along with a few important points on how to best use Docker.