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                Hacktoberfest 2015 by DigitalOcean
                
Ah, October. It's that time of year again! Last year, I celebrated October by drinking lots of excellent German beer wit…
            
         
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                Backing Up Your Amazon S3 Buckets to EC2
                
Amazon S3 is a wonderful data storage service -- it's really easy to integrate with your application (via Amazon-provide…
            
         
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                Monitoring HTTP Health via Email Alerts on AWS
                
It's crucial to know when your HTTP APIs or web applications go down, even for a brief moment. Interruption of service c…
            
         
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                Visual Studio Code for Node.js Development
                
Something very peculiar is happening in Microsoft. They recently released a new IDE called Visual Studio Code and it's b…
            
         
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                Binding a Node.js App to Port 80 with Nginx
                
You've finished building your first Node.js web app, and boy, is it awesome. Everything works great on your development…
            
         
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                Pushy - An Alternative to Google Cloud Messaging
                
After writing the post about my letdowns with Google Cloud Messaging, I set out to find an alternative way to send push…
            
         
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                Genymotion – An Android Developer’s Best Friend
                
When I first started Android development in 2011, it was incredibly difficult to debug and test Android apps on multiple…