Keanan Koppenhaver

How to Back Up a Single File From a GitHub Repository

The last time I had ten GitHub tabs open trying to evaluate which JavaScript library to use for a particular project, I wanted to grab one of the example files and pull it down to my local machine. It would be convenient to make a few edits and make...

Making the Case for Backups: Convincing Your Team That Backups Matter

Part of being an engineering leader is communicating the needs of the engineering team to non-technical stakeholders. Take backups, for example. Backups cost money to store and take time to create. Theoretically, if everyone does their job...

The Risk in Managing Your Own Backups

Data loss is a risk for every business and one that can be mitigated by having reliable backups. On January 31, 2017, Gitlab had an outage that lasted for many hours due to production data being accidentally deleted. In this case, Gitlab’s problems...