https://matt.berther.io/Musings of an agile development manager and occasional code monkey 2026-05-12T15:22:13-06:00 Matt Berther https://matt.berther.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Matt Berther /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2016-02-25T00:00:00-07:00 2016-02-25T00:00:00-07:00 https://matt.berther.io/2016/02/25/continuous-deployment-to-cloudfront-using-circleci/ Matt Berther

Historically, I used a dynamic publishing engine to host this site. The engine would reside on a server that I was responsible for maintaining – both security patches and uptime. Recently though, I made the switch to using the AWS CloudFront platform to make this site available on the Internet. Key benefits from this approach include: Edge locations around the world. When someone requests a...

2016-02-13T00:00:00-07:00 2016-02-13T00:00:00-07:00 https://matt.berther.io/2016/02/13/exporting-a-jsonresume-with-gulp/ Matt Berther

Ive received questions from readers wondering about the résumé link on my page. I created the résumé using JSON Resume with the hope that it would make it easier to keep it up-to-date. I also love the idea of an open standard for résumés. So far, I have been very happy with the project and I am very grateful to the awesome team behind JSON Resume. However, re-publishing the résumé became a man...

2015-02-03T00:00:00-07:00 2015-02-03T00:00:00-07:00 https://matt.berther.io/2015/02/03/how-to-resize-aws-ec2-ebs-volumes/ Matt Berther

It is impossible to resize an EBS volume. However, by creating a copy of the volume that is either larger or smaller, you can simulate a resize. Doing this with EBS volumes can be challenging, especially when they are mounted as the root device on an EC2 instance. This post is intended to provide step-by-step directions on how to either expand or shrink the size of an EBS volume. Before you st...

2015-02-01T00:00:00-07:00 2015-02-01T00:00:00-07:00 https://matt.berther.io/2015/02/01/good-fast-cheap-pick-two/ Matt Berther

Excellent Venn diagram describing the tradeoffs of the classic project management dilemma (author unknown).

2014-08-13T00:00:00-06:00 2014-08-13T00:00:00-06:00 https://matt.berther.io/2014/08/13/digital-ocean-dokku-and-ssltls/ Matt Berther

Background Heroku powered this website for the past several years. I had no problems with the platform. Deployments were reliable and fast. However, when the time came to add SSL support to the site, Heroku became cost-prohibitive for the volume of traffic this site generates. Protecting the privacy of my readers led me to explore new ways to host this site. Requirements I had a small set of r...