Using MinIO as a development S3 replacement

There are parts of your stack that can be run locally and others that can't. If you're using AWS for your cloud infrastructure you most likely use S3 as an object storage. Tool named MinIO provides an S3 compliant API that gives you ability to have an additional piece of…

Restoring UniFi CK

I run a couple of Ubiquiti's devices in my home network. I host my controller on CloudKey (1st gen), that's this device. Equipment is pretty much rock solid, but I had two failing controller upgrades on CK in the last 6 months. That's a situation when blinking white light turns…

My migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL

I've been thinking about this, since I've done PHP cloud hosting comparison (OpenShift vs Heroku vs Fortrabbit). I decided to give it a chance on my blog, because DB is small, and I know all details about the project. During the preparation I've read a few articles and discussions on…

Deployer - Capistrano for PHP projects

You want to build your custom VPS and deploy your code easily? You can consider building git deploy solution with git hooks and scripts on your server or you can go with something Ruby developers do for a while, execute a bunch of commands over ssh. As someone who is…

Blog styles updated - round one

It's been a while since I've blogged last time. In meantime I've upgraded styling of my blog. Mainly because previous styles wasn't mobile friendly. This is just a reminder for me how it looked before this upgrade. I had a lot of ideas, but not enough time to realize all…