Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

SSH agent forwarding allows you to use your private, local SSH key remotely without worrying about leaving confidential data on the server you’re working with. It’s built into ssh, and is easy to set up and use.Read This Article on CloudSav… Continue reading →

AWS S3 is Amazon’s cloud storage service, allowing you to store individual files as objects in a bucket. You can upload files from the command line on your Linux server, or even sync entire directories to S3.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &rs… Continue reading →

Favicons are the tiny icons that you see on browser tabs. They’re usually just simple ICO files, but in recent years they’ve become like an icon for your website, with numerous competing sizes and types.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &r… Continue reading →

Comma Separated Values files (CSV) are a way of transferring data between applications. Databases like MySQL and spreadsheet software like Excel support importing and exporting through CSV, so you can use CSV files to exchange data between the two.Read… Continue reading →

Jira is used for issue tracking, and is a crucial tool for keeping large software development teams organized. In this guide, we’ll break down it’s tried-and-tested schema, including the different tiers of issue types and the organization t… Continue reading →

jQuery is a small JavaScript library that tries to make working with HTML easier. It provides more functions for manipulating elements on webpages, which make it useful for creating dynamic content. Is it the right choice for your website?Read This Art… Continue reading →

Google’s Search Console is a tool that gives website owners a look into how Google is indexing and handling their site. It’s crucially important that you submit a sitemap so that all of your URLs will be properly indexed.Read This Article o… Continue reading →

Docker is a tool for running your applications inside containers. Containers package all the dependencies and code your app needs to run into a single file, which will run the same way on any machine.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

A Content Delivery Network (CDN), is a network of servers around the world that cache your static assets, reducing the load on your primary web servers. AWS’s CloudFront CDN is easy to use, quick to set up, and cheap to run.Read This Article on C… Continue reading →

Google Cloud Platform is a competitor to AWS that makes running virtualized servers easy and cheap. Unfortunately for beginners, they have a novel approach to setting up SSH that requires some explanation and setup.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &r… Continue reading →