Jason Stangroome
Section Blog
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Beware Prometheus counters that do not begin at zero
After using Prometheus daily for a couple of years now, I thought I understood it pretty well. But recently I discovered that metrics I expected were not appearing in charts and not triggering alerts, so an...
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- DevOps
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Working with Section Environment branches
The Section platform was built with the understanding that changes to sites are often deployed to a series of environments before being deployed to Production. We anticipated that with each set of site changes,...
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- Developers
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Debugging Varnish Cache VCL
Varnish Cache’s Configuration Language (VCL) can be very approachable to get started with basic caching behaviour for your website. However, once you start to leverage the power of VCL to achieve the best...
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- Developers
- Performance
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Early TLS deprecation
Since before PCI DSS 3.2 was published, Section has provided delivery infrastructure with early TLS protocol versions disabled to allow customers to adopt the PCI requirements ahead of the June 2018 deadline....
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- Security
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Tips to Make Sure Your DNS Registration Doesn't Expire
During my time at Section I have seen the websites of our customers and our partners go offline due to a seemingly innocuous administration error: failing to renew their domain name registration on time. This...
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- Developers
