When I describe Wrenchmode to developers, often the first reaction I get is: “But zero-downtime isn’t really that hard…” Unfortunately, I think that view misses the point of Wrenchmode. It’s…

Heroku’s default maintenance page is, well, a bit boring. It looks more like an nginx error and less like a friendly notice. Of course, they allow you to customize and…

To make it easy to understand what Wrenchmode is, I created a little whiteboard animation video. We’ll put it on the homepage soon enough, but until then, enjoy!

Web Maintenance happens, site downtime happens, and in our haste to address it from a technical side we often neglect the human element of downtime. The user, safely tucked behind their…

One of our goals is to create a WordPress plugin for WrenchMode. I started my design career as a WordPress theme designer and eventually shifted into developing my own. Oftentimes I’ve…

Since the beginning, the goal with Wrenchmode has been to support pretty much any language or framework that has a middleware stack. Rack for Ruby was our first target, but…