Alexandre Jardin My Github Pages

Adding tags to EBS volumes

Tagging all your Amazon resources is a must-have if you want to have an efficient billing follow-up. It’s effortless in most cases, but not always like with EBS volumes within an auto-scaling group. Even if it’s not natively possible, there is still a solution with AWS.

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Connecting to EC2 instances without a headache

AWS provides one powerful feature called auto-scaling. If you configure it on your infrastructure, you will be able to automatically adjust capacity to maintain optimal performances at the lowest possible cost. But it will be more difficult to open an SSH connection on your EC2 instances as the associated IP addresses will change regularly.

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Garbage collector for Docker

If you are heavily using Docker on your local environment, it’s common to have a lot of dangling images, stopped containers, orphans volumes, etc. And if you have multiple environments, it can be challenging to clean only useless things without impacting what you want to keep, like databases, for example.

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Blackfire & Magento

The first thing I profiled with Blackfire was a Magento project with PHP 5.5. Like most existing projects where the addition of new features is constant, we started to face performance issues more and more often, while the codebase keeps growing. The project began four years ago.

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