How to Set Up Prometheus & Grafana Monitoring on Ubuntu
In this guide, you'll turn a fresh Ubuntu VM on Katapult into a self-monitored machine using Prometheus for metrics collection and Grafana for dashboards.
Devops & Infrastructure
An insight into the way we run the infrastructure that runs all our services.
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Hosting a website on Katapult with Caddy
Caddy is a powerful tool that simplifies serving sites and services on Katapult. It also provides automatic TLS certification and management using Let's Encrypt, ensuring your sites are secure.
Introducing Katapult Load Balancers
What is a load balancer?
Event driven servers in Ruby
We use a lot of different server software here to accomplish various tasks. In the case of web servers, there is a great deal of excellent software available to achieve...
MySQL Replication for Redundancy
In this post we will discuss how we configure MariaDB multi-source replication in order to achieve database redundancy.
Seamless socket server restarts in Ruby
We utilise a variety of custom socket servers to support our applications. Most of our apps have at least one. We write RPC servers to interact with repository storage in...
Data Protection at Codebase
In light of recent events, we wanted to write a quick post to outline the measures we take to ensure that the data you entrust to us is safe and how we monitor the techniques used to ensure they will be ready for use when we need them.
Creating an IPv6 network with an EdgeRouter
We’ve been using IPv6 for quite a while now on the aTech and Viaduct networks however my home ISP doesn’t support IPv6 natively. As you can imagine, this is quite...
Preparing a new Mac
I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my trusty Macbook Pro from Mavericks to Yosemite and taken the opportunity to give the machine a bit of a cleanup. I...
MySQL Indexing Explained
In the time we've been assisting people with hosting their web applications, the most common reason we've seen for performance problems has been missing or incorrectly used database indexes, so...
Setting up an office network
Our office connectivity is relatively simple and pretty standard for most offices, so I thought I would share our configuration and how we’ve set everything up. I thought a blog...
Today's .io issues
This afternoon there was an issue which affected all .io domains across the internet. As there has been no official word from ICB (the registrar which runs .io domains among...