Working on a side project? Ready to launch but don’t have / don’t want to spend money on hosting it?

There is certainly no shortage of tools to help you host, build and deploy your software, but most of it doesn’t come for free. If you’re working on your own project and need to integrate a bunch of different technologies it can become expensive quickly. I have a side project that has lots of moving parts and I thought it’d be a useful exercise to see if I could host, test, continuously deploy, monitor and log it for zero cost - here are my findings.

Your job as a developer isn’t to just develop, it’s to continually learn how to develop better ~ Paul Irish

Automating repetitive tasks is fun and reduces the time and errors associated with tasks that must be performed over and over again, consequently freeing up time for you to focus on the problems you really want to solve.

Like many software companies we have evolved to use a number of technologies when developing our SaaS solutions, PHP, NodeJS, AngularJS, Ruby, and Java, to name a few. We like to practise continuous integration here at Talis, therefore we run build plans for all of our applications ensuring that artifacts are built, tested, and are ready for deployment.