DevOps

Chromatic has used Travis CI for nearly five years for our continuous integration needs; building every pull request, checking our changes against code standards, running automated tests, etc. On March 12, 2019, we canceled our Travis subscription and began running our builds elsewhere. Why make a change now? It’s simple, really.

How to use your production deployment automation strategies to build local development infrastructure.

Making the review and approval process fast and efficient is key to successful agile projects. Tugboat helps this tremendously.

Poor website architecture and performance planning has struck again, this time leaving 24,000 families in the state of Illinois disappointed and burdened by the crash of the Empower Illinois scholarship tax credit site.

The story of how we recovered from a mysterious performance meltdown related to file organization.

dnscontrol is an open-source tool written in Go by the fine folks at Stack Exchange that allows us to configure our DNS records in a JS file that can be committed to version control and published on demand. With this configuration in git, we can now easily review changes through our normal pull request workflow, as well as getting a full log of any changes made over time.

How to reference a forked/patched npm package.

fastly-cli is a command-line interface (CLI) for the Fastly CDN written in node.js.

How to understand and use some of Ansible's strange looping techniques.

Using Drush to sync databses (drush sql-sync) is a valuable tool, but it is not always an efficient choice when dealing with large databases (think over 1GB).

At Chromatic, we wanted to produce a repeatable site launch process that we could share not only amongst ourselves, but also with the community.

As developers, oftentimes we want or need our working environment to be an exact match of the production environment. This is especially true when your project is running a complex or specific infrastructure. Lucky for us, there’s Vagrant!