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.
Upgrading Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 LTS using the command line
Upgrading your Ubuntu version can be intimidating — Particularly if you aren't well versed in the Linux CLI (Command Line Interface). We're here to help.
What resources does my VPS really need?
Purchasing a VPS can be a big decision. Whatever the reason for it, we all start with the same question - What resources do I need? Here are the answers.
Getting started with Docker on a VPS
Docker has become an integral part of application development. Here's how to get started with Docker on your Virtual Private Server.
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...