Reading List 2013

I got to read a lot of great books in 2013, shaping a lot of my current thinking both in terms of business and web operations. If you’re looking for something to read, follow along!

The Smallest Distributed System

Travis CI started out as an idea, an ideal even. Before its inception, there was a distinct lack of continuous integration systems available for the open source community.

Deploying your Jekyll Site to S3 with Travis CI

I admit it, I got stung by the urge of not having to maintain my own servers anymore. For simple websites like this one, it’s become a dreadful task.

What is Automation?

In our circles, automation is most frequently associated with infrastructure, tools like Puppet and Chef, automating away your server provisioning and deployments.

Just One More Metric