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Everyday DevOps - Did I Break the Internet

Published 15 days ago • 1 min read

Everyday DevOps

Did I Break the Internet

🚨 Thursday, I deployed core-api

😅 Two minutes later, Google declared a global incident.

Did I break the internet? Highly unlikely.

Was the timing suspicious? Absolutely.

But let this be your friendly reminder:

Correlation does not equal causation.

If you have ever hit deploy and immediately wondered if you broke something. This one’s for you.

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Devpod on DigitalOcean

Sometimes, your local development environment is doing too much to be able to do local development effectively.

If your project already uses devcontainers, running devpod on a DigitalOcean droplet can save you time and reduce wear and tear on your laptop.

This one line will start a devpod as a droplet and run vsode.

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devpod up --id devcontainer-typescript-example --provider digitalocean --ide vscode git@github.com:markcallen/devcontainer-typescript-example.git

I wrote this up on my blog at Remote Development Using Digital Ocean: DevpodDetails​

DevOps Help

Need some help with your SDLC? CI/CD pipeline isn't working as well as it was. New projects getting started, and you need some help getting it deployed?

What this week has in store

After another week of working on different agents for my chatbot, I've been able to use it to streamline my development process. This week, I will continue to use it to work on small features and see if it can build code that I feel comfortable using.

See you next week!

Mark C Allen

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Do you have a problem with your release process? Has Kubernetes got you down? Do you need an outsider's perspective on what's holding up your deployments? If you have 25 minutes, book a time with me.

Mark C Allen

Everyday DevOps

For DevOps engineers. Ideas, concepts, tips & tricks based on my day-to-day experience.

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