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

Posted on the 9th January on the Katapult blog

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.

Event driven servers in Ruby

Posted in June 2017 on the aTech Media blog

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...

Seamless socket server restarts in Ruby

Posted in March 2017 on the aTech Media blog

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

Posted in February 2017 on the Codebase blog

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.

Preparing a new Mac

Posted in April 2015 on the aTech Media blog

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

Posted in January 2015 on the Katapult blog

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

Posted in December 2013 on the aTech Media blog

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

Posted in July 2013 on the aTech Media blog

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...