Tagged: DevOps

19 articles tagged DevOps across all clusters on CodeWalkers.

Application Security

Top Application Security Tools Compared (2026)

Compare Dependabot, Socket, Snyk, Aikido, SonarQube, and GitHub security products by the code or asset they inspect, where they enforce policy, how they deploy, and how their public pricing scales.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

Complete Guide to Socket.dev for Supply Chain Security (2026)

Socket.dev provides package-risk signals, pull request scanning, exact-version CLI reports, and install-time malware blocking through Socket Firewall. This guide separates those controls, current plan limits, and a practiced package preflight.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

GitHub Code Security and Secret Protection Guide (2026)

GitHub sells Code Security and Secret Protection separately for private repositories. This guide covers CodeQL, Copilot Autofix, dependency controls, secret scanning, push protection, public-repository access, and per-committer pricing.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

Complete Guide to SonarQube for Static Analysis (2026)

SonarQube analyzes first-party source and configuration against quality and security rules. This guide separates Cloud, Server, and Community Build, including the plan required for pre-merge pull request analysis.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

Complete Guide to Dependabot for Dependency Security (2026)

Dependabot alerts identify dependencies with known advisories, security updates can open minimum-patch pull requests, and version updates maintain declared dependencies. This guide covers those jobs, current limits, and the remaining package-risk gap.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

Complete Guide to Snyk Application Security (2026)

Snyk scans open-source dependencies, first-party code, containers, and infrastructure as code. This guide covers what each scanner reads, current plan limits, supported deployment paths, and the deprecation of Snyk Code Local Engine.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

Complete Guide to Aikido Security (2026)

Aikido combines code, dependency, secrets, infrastructure, cloud, and runtime scanners in one service. This guide covers the documented scan surfaces, AutoTriage and AutoFix boundaries, current plans, and deployment limits.

By Matthew Lake
Programming Intermediate

PHP Configuration: php.ini, FPM, and Per-Directory Files

Control PHP behavior through php.ini, scanned INI files, FPM or Apache settings, per-directory files, and careful script-level overrides.

By Mark Gates
Programming Beginner

The Terminal: A Practical Guide

Learn how terminals and shells work, navigate files, use core Unix commands, connect commands with pipes, and supervise terminal-based coding agents.

By Mark Gates
Programming Intermediate

DevOps & Server Administration

Choose a DevOps guide for terminal basics, AI coding agents, server observability, contingency planning, or Squid proxy configuration.

By Mark Gates
Application Security

Snyk vs Aikido: Developer-First AppSec vs Modern All-in-One

Compare Snyk and Aikido by documented scanning surfaces, developer integrations, deployment controls, plan limits, and the bill for a real team. The decision turns on product-by-product adoption versus a bundled platform.

By Matthew Lake
Programming Beginner

Terminal Commands: A Practical Reference

Look up common terminal commands by task, with concise explanations, copyable examples, expected output, and practical debugging notes.

By Mark Gates
Programming Intermediate

Server Statistics and Observability

Replace old PHP uptime scripts with useful server statistics: metrics, logs, traces, browser timing, and alerts that explain production behavior.

By Mark Gates
Programming Intermediate

Server Contingency Planning

Build a server contingency plan around impact, backups, restore tests, rollback paths, ownership, and maintenance.

By Mark Gates
Application Security

Dependabot vs Socket: Dependency Scanning and Supply Chain Defense

Dependabot tracks known dependency vulnerabilities and opens update pull requests. Socket adds package-risk evidence, pull request policy, and install-time malware blocking through Firewall. Compare when each control acts and why a team may run both.

By Matthew Lake
Application Security

Application Security

Application security tools inspect the code you write and the packages you install. Advisories, package behavior, and first-party source are different jobs.

By Matthew Lake
Programming Beginner

Using AI Coding Agents in the Terminal

Learn how to start terminal AI coding agents in the right project, supervise commands, review file changes, and set safe working boundaries.

By Mark Gates
Programming Intermediate

Squid Caching Proxy

Understand what Squid still does well, where HTTP caching has moved, and how to think about proxies without treating cache as magic.

By Mark Gates
Application Security

Aikido vs SonarQube: All-in-One AppSec vs Deep SAST

Compare Aikido and SonarQube by documented static-analysis workflow, dependency coverage, deployment boundary, plan requirements, and operating cost. The overlap is first-party code analysis, while the wider products solve different jobs.

By Matthew Lake