Scaling Our Engineering Department (part 2)
This is the second part in a 2-part series. Read part 1. In my last post I gave an overview of how we started the process of changing the way we do agile development at Leaseweb by setting goals,
Category: Development
As a tech company, many of our systems are developed in-house, and we take much interest in development related topics. Read news and how-to’s in these blogs.
Scaling our engineering departments (part 1)
In this blog post I’m going to cover how we are scaling our engineering department at Leaseweb: where we started, the lessons we’ve learned, and how we are hoping to move forward.
A maturity model for DevOps teams
Last year, we merged our existing operations and development departments into one Product Engineering department. Since then we have been focusing a lot on coaching all 13 teams and improving their effectiveness In october last year, we attended an excellent talk by Bol.com at Velocity Amsterdam. In this talk they explained their ongoing transition towards DevOps. […]
Deploy Software RAID through the Leaseweb Customer Portal or API
For businesses or organizations whose data is particularly sensitive or mission critical, disk fault tolerance and optimized performance aren’t luxury add-ons but absolute must haves. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) provides the additional capacity, reliability and performance they need by combining an array of physical hard disks into a single logical disk. RAID […]
Leaseweb Virtual Private Server Tutorial: Creating a site-to-site VPN
Last time we showed you how to set up a Virtual Private Server (VPS) inside Leaseweb Virtual Private Server. Today we’re taking it a step further by creating a site-to-site VPN from your off-site location to our cloud. This way you can establish a permanent secure connection. Be sure to check our other tutorials here: http://lsw.to/yzF
Leaseweb Virtual Private Server Tutorial: Creating a VPS
Leaseweb Virtual Private Server, powered by Apache CloudStack gives you the freedom to customize your virtual infrastructure to meet your exact requirements. It comes loaded with features for you to play around with. Some of these are simple, some are more complex. Creating and establishing instances inside your Virtual Private Server (VPS) — formerly known […]
Tutorial: how to logon to your Linux dedicated server
As I wrote in my previous post, we receive a lot of questions about how you can logon to your server. Today I’ll show you how you can access your Linux-based server. We have a lot more information avilable for you! Watch our other tutorials at http://lsw.to/yzF or check out our Knowledge Base.
Tutorial: how to logon to your Windows dedicated server
One of the most frequently asked questions is how you can logon to your dedicated server. So I decided to quickly show you. At Leaseweb, you can have different operating systems, today we’ll look at a Windows server. Next time I’ll show you how you can logon to a Linux server. Want more info? Watch […]
Setting up the Leaseweb CDN on Magento
Magento ® is one of today’s most popular e-commerce platforms and widely used for automating online stores. Integrating this open-source content management system with the Leaseweb CDN can really optimize performance of your e-commerce web site and in this blog we describe what you need to do to set it up quickly and easily. A […]
Under The Hood of Algolia API
Algolia is a distributed Search-as-a-Service API that processes more than 4 billions user-generated queries per month. Algolia’s DNA is performance, the service is optimized to reply in milliseconds from any location worldwide while maintaining high availability. Today, Algolia’s co-founder and CTO Julien Lemoine provides details on their architecture, showing how they designed their fault tolerant […]