Fatal – you don’t have any automated test cases Recoverable – you have some sorts of test suite in place Best – you are already using unit/integration tests or have TDD/RSpec in place Without wasting words, I’d put you right to the Cucumber and Webrat goodness… Points worth noting… This was ALL the code I [...]
Backups are worth in GOLD when you need them. I simply cannot stress on the fact that if you are running a production web application and you are not backing up your critical data – you are bound to shoot yourself in the foot – sooner or later. Something similar happened to us when we [...]
We had to answer this question yesterday when our EC2 instance stopped responding and was constantly showing 100% CPU load. SSH wasn’t working and neither was apache responding. The CPU was hung at 100% load for a full day. Hence, we decided that a reboot was the only solution. I had a notion (and had [...]