When adding a new feature to Checkly or refactoring some older piece, I tend to pick Heroku for rolling it out. But not always, because sometimes I pick AWS Lambda. The short story: Developer Experience trumps everything.AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impacts not only…
Update 14-08-2019: Greenlock is awesome but needs support. If you don't want to code this yourself consider donating $100 or so on their indiegogo page so they can ship Greenlock v3 and stay compatible with the Let's Encrypt API. Recently I pushed a long overdue feature for Checkly: SSL for…
Update 13-03-2019: We moved our browser Checks to AWS Lambda! There will be a new write up!At Checkly, we run our browser checks on AWS EC2 instances managed by Terraform. When shipping a new version, we don’t want to interrupt our service, so we need zero downtime deployments.…
The world of DevOps is a pretty confusing place for folks just starting out. Even figuring out what “DevOps” means can be hard. Is it CI/CD with Kubernetes and Serverless to drive Agile™ product iterations? Or is it SSH-ing into a box and restarting Apache? You guessed it. All…