Leveraging AWS, Metal Toad successfully scaled the Emmy's website to handle millions of hits, ensuring a flawless experience during the live event.
If you are using New Relic for performance monitoring a Drupal project, you may have noticed a large discrepency between the browser throughput and...
Rapidly install PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 by compiling from source, including essential libraries. Follow our step-by-step guide for a quick setup.
As part of the services we provide for some of our clients, we monitor web page load times. The Munin plugin we were using at the time was this...
We sometimes need to exchange huge files with our customers and partners (too big to fit within the typical storage limits of Basecamp, or the free...
Puppet Labs launched a responsive website using Drupal, showcasing advanced features like drag-and-drop GUI and Panels, highlighting Drupal's...
The final post in my Successful Digital PM series is also both the trickiest for me to write and the one that has been the most eye opening to me as...
Resolving Capistrano upload errors by utilizing the :mkdir option in net-sftp to ensure target directories are created during deployments.
This session had us finding new images to create a new theme for our site. Once our new wolf images and patterns were created and exported, we went...
When working with Drupal sites, Drush is your go-to tool. This post is going to focus on the drush sql-dump command. This allows you to export your...
One interesting thing that has evolved from our use of Capistrano is the configuration files have become the de-facto documentation hub for a...
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
You may know about some of the problems that CSS has as a language. There is a lot of repetition. There is a lot of repetition. You may have worked...
When we added the Compass CSS authoring framework to our projects, new wrinkles appeared in the deployment process. Committing the artifacts to Git...
Learn how to set up Capistrano authorization for efficient deployments, manage SSH keys, and troubleshoot deployment issues with this comprehensive...
Is your unix-based system time out of sync? If it is out of sync by more that 1000 seconds, you will need to manually force it back into sync.
In my last post, a basic intro to to running cap deploy was presented. Now, let's look at some more advanced scenarios. (See Part 1 for the actual...
Automate your Drupal deployments with Capistrano for efficient, error-free processes. Learn setup and best practices in our step-by-step guide.
Essential Drupal deployment checklist covering crucial settings and configurations to ensure optimal performance, security, and functionality for...
If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent...
Recovering from disk space issues on a VMware host machine involves manually killing VM processes and restarting them to get back to normal...
Sometimes when committing things to svn you want to commit a directory, but ignore all of the files inside it. Here's how.