Wilcox Development Solutions Blog

Herds of microservices, flocks of people, and those that take care of them I’ve been in big enterprises, as a day job, for almost 6 years…

The Problem In 2020 I realized I had a problem. I was in four different OSes: Windows, Linux, iOS and some Mac OS X. This wasn’t so much a…

I finally did it: I moved this blog to Gatsby This blog has made its second transition: first, from MovableType to Wordpress, then from…

Introduction Containers give us a way to package software and ensure that the software etc we expect installed is, in, fact, installed. We…

I’ve been working with Jenkins quite a bit lately. When I set up a system I want it to be as reproducable as possible: you can never trust…

Introduction I’ve been playing with Gatsby.js. Gatsby is a static site render that uses React and GraphQL to make neat sites that a modern…

For early stage experiments I like deploying to Heroku. Heroku’s free model will spin down servers that haven’t gotten traffic in a while…

This weekend I took the time to play with Bitbucket Pipelines, a new feature from Bitbucket. Often, my goal with my setup is “get something…

Introduction Posted on this blog as comments may be insightful. My other - more personal - blog doesn’t have comments, so this one will have…

I’m constantly looking for new innovations that I can use on brown-field projects. You know the ones: you come in and there’s a large…