Easy Blue-Green Deployments On Amazon EC2 Container Service

Easy Blue-Green Deployments On Amazon EC2 Container Service

At work we’ve recently started using Amazon’s EC2 Container Service (ECS) for running Docker images in staging and production. In order to simplify our CI/CD process we wrote a script for triggering blue-green deployments. I wrote an article explaining the how and why over on the Codeship Blog, check it out: https://blog.codeship.com/easy-blue-green-deployments-on-amazon-ec2-container-service/
Creating A Consistent Cross-platform Docker Development Environment

Creating A Consistent Cross-platform Docker Development Environment

Over the past several months my team at work has been integrating Docker into our software development life-cycle. We’ve run into several road bumps and come up with solutions to work through them in order that we could have a consistent development experience on Docker. The good folks at Codeship published an article I wrote on the topic. If you’re considering using Docker I recommend you check it out to kick-start your process.
End User Verification Even Your Grandma Can Use

End User Verification Even Your Grandma Can Use

Based on my experience and previous series about the their APIs Nexmo asked me to write an article for publishing on ProgrammableWeb. Of course I said sure, that sounds like fun. So I wrote about Nexmo’s Verify API that makes end user verification quite simple and user friendly. Head over to ProgrammableWeb.com to read my article: http://www.programmableweb.com/news/end-user-verification-even-your-grandma-can-use/sponsored-content/2015/05/12
Published In php|architect

Published In php|architect

Remaking the WebEx Free Trials - php|architect September 2011 In November 2010 I had the privilege of speaking at ZendCon, the largest annual PHP conference. I gave a talk about a success story of mine at work using Zend Server and Zend Framework to rebuild our free trials engine. It is a story I am proud of and the work we did continues to serve us well today.