A series of what is pages in the DeployHQ Blog.
Learn pull request best practices that actually improve code review quality. Covers PR sizing (why 400 lines is the limit), effective descriptions, reviewer techniques, stacked PRs, and deploy-on-merge workflows with CI/CD integration.
pnpm vs npm head-to-head: pnpm installs 2-3x faster and saves 50-70% disk space. Bun is even faster at 18x npm speed. See real benchmarks, command-by-command comparisons, and a clear recommendation for each use case including CI/CD pipelines.
Keep your production applications running with Systemd and Monit. Learn service unit configuration, resource monitoring, health checks, email alerts, and how to integrate service management into your DeployHQ deployment workflow.
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.
Feature flags: Control application features without deployments. Learn how toggling flags enhances flexibility and improves your release process.
Build scripts automate the steps between your source code and a running application — installing dependencies, compiling assets, running tests, and packaging the result. Learn how to write production-ready build scripts and integrate them with DeployHQ.
Deployment scripts: Automate deployments with DeployHQ. Learn how to streamline workflows and reduce errors for efficient and reliable releases.
GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and deployments. Learn the principles, see how push-based and pull-based models differ, and why you don't need Kubernetes to start.
Instead of storing large files directly, use Git LFS. Learn how this extension uses text pointers to store large file contents on a remote server.
Most deploys should be incremental — but sometimes you need to send everything. Here is when a full deployment is the right call, what it costs in time and bandwidth, and how to run one safely in DeployHQ.
Incremental deployments upload only the files that changed — turning a 4-minute full deploy into a 10-second push. See real benchmarks, learn how they differ from incremental rollouts, and get tips to make them even faster.
Dive deep into Docker. Learn how it revolutionized software development with its efficient containerization approach, contrasting it with traditional VMs.