WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website,...

Migrating to Amazon Linux 2

I run all my EC2 workloads on Amazon Linux. It comes with a superb AWS integration, a secure default configuration, regular security updates, and I can open AWS Support tickets if I run into any problems. In late December 2017, AWS announced the successor of Amazon...

Configuring Atlassian Confluence Backups

Confluence automatically backs up your data daily at 2:00am, by performing a full site export.  The zipped  xml backup file is stored in the backups directory of your Confluence Home directory. The default naming convention for the backup files is...