We've all run our applications out of memory from time to time. In development and testing, an OutOfMemory error, or OOM, is fine. We catch...more.

Ansible is a fantastic way to orchestrate deployments that aren't exactly trivial. In a complex deployment, there are dozens of players and they all need...more.

What do you get when you combine a whale and a butler? A CI server that's a lot easier to manage. It's something that I...more.

It’s 2017, which means there's a good chance that a non-trivial portion of your business depends upon the cloud. Adopting a cloud strategy for infrastructure...more.

Ginny Hendry, an 8th Light Crafter and Owner, passed away Monday, February 6. Ginny joined 8th Light in 2012 and was a great mentor and...more.

I've run into lots of folks who have heard about the cool stuff DTrace can do, but for one reason or another have run into...more.

When adding a third-party library to a project, I typically find plenty of examples of how to use the library in a dead-simple, script-like way,...more.

Putting your infrastructure in the cloud has a lot of benefits. Some highlights include: Fine-grained cost control based on a pay-as-you-go model. If you think...more.

The existence (or lack thereof) of cons cells in Clojure might be one of the first things LISPers notice when switching to Clojure. It was...more.

Developers are typically trained to look out for and guard against logical errors that have been accidentally introduced to their code. Such errors will range...more.

When I first started working in Vim, reading Bram Moolenaar's Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing was very helpful. In it, he outlines three fundamental...more.

When I join a new team, I am fascinated to watch how quality issues are handled. Application users complain about bugs in production, testers report...more.

I recently stumbled upon a story on Shi Yuzhu, founder of Chinese game developer Giant Interactive and one of the richest people in China with...more.

Ideally, software should cost less than the value it creates. For an established product, we may be able to easily calculate the ROI and determine...more.

Pipeline transformations can be a wonderful mechanism for creating self-describing code. Many languages offer a built-in pipe operator. The list includes Elixir, F#, Clojure1, Hack,...more.