Note: Go to Setup Rails section below to skip my story. Just in case you are in hurry and want to see the guide immediately.
Just want to give you a heads up. Everytime I mention Rails in this article, it refers to Ruby on Rails. Now let’s start the story.
Me and my team have recently been tasked to write a new service. Since we have experience building and maintaining current services in Rails 5.2, we decided to use Rails again for this new service.
But we want to take it to the next level to spice things up…
Around two months ago, I have given task to increase the speed and performance of Backstreet Academy’s website. This is not a new task for me, since I have done this performance-related task in my previous job, but for me in order to optimize something we need to look the current state of the things that we want to optimize. If we don’t know the state, how we are make sure that we are really done the job or even make it worse. For example, if we want to increase the page load of the website, we need to know…
TLDR: I wrote a script that will remove old compiled file generated by Nuxt.js that has been uploaded to AWS S3. The script is intended to be use on Continuous Integration environment (we are using Gitlab CI). If you are looking for the solution, just scroll to the bottom of this post. If you want the story, you can continuous reading this article.
…My journey of learning to write shell scripts…
Remember a while ago I told stories about setting up automated CDN deployment for Nuxt.js application (You can read it here). The implementation basically is just about generating compiled…
We recently launched our new website 🍻 and during the development of this new website I have learnt a lot of things. One of them is how CDN help us to prevent broken during deployment phase on our continuous integration (CI). As the background, we just implemented CI on our services and I have a plan to use CDN for our website but never had a time to implement that until this problem happen.
We are using combination of Gitlab CI and AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) for all our docker container. Currently we have around 10 services running for…
Continuous Integration (or Continuous Deployment) concept is always amaze me, because it allows an organization to do more iteration and shipping incremental changes without breaking any part of their system. In this story I want to explain how we moving from “pull-based” deployment to complete CI/CD architecture in Backstreet Academy.
You might say “Wait, what is ‘pull-based’ deployment?”. Well, the term “pull-based deployment” is a term that I invented myself 😆. That deployment architecture is pretty simple. …
Alfiana Sibuea
Lead Software Engineer at Mekari — Empower businesses and professionals to progress effortlessly (https://mekari.com/)
