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What is The Twelve-Factor App Methodology?

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a set of 12 best practices for building modern SaaS applications — created by Heroku engineers from patterns across thousands of production apps. This guide explains each factor (codebase, dependencies, config, backing services, build/release/run, processes, port binding, concurrency, disposability, dev/prod parity, logs, admin processes) with examples.

How to Implement Server Backups with AWS S3

Learn how to build a complete S3 backup strategy for your servers — automated scripts, scheduling, lifecycle policies, verification, and how to deploy backup scripts with DeployHQ.

Deploy CraftCMS via DeployHQ on Hetzner Cloud

Deploy Craft CMS to a Hetzner cloud server with automated zero-downtime deployments via DeployHQ. Step-by-step guide covering DDEV local development, server setup, Project Config workflow, and push-to-deploy automation.

Deploying Odoo on Ubuntu with DeployHQ

This detailed guide will walk you through the complete process of deploying Odoo 18.0 on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS with Nginx and PostgreSQL, using DeployHQ.

Code Review: The Dark Side

Understand the fundamental aspect of code review. Explore its benefits and learn how to prevent it from becoming a tool for obstruction or personal agendas.

What is Docker?

Dive deep into Docker. Learn how it revolutionized software development with its efficient containerization approach, contrasting it with traditional VMs.

Deploying Kirby with DeployHQ

A major advantage of using a CMS like Kirby is the ability to deploy your website directly from a Git repository. Since Kirby uses flat files instead of a database, this includes both your code and content.

Modern WordPress Plugin Development

I wanted to build something that took a more modern structured approach...separates classes into 'single responsibilities'...uses Composer for loading dependencies...is easy to read & extend...Separates HTML from PHP.