PM2 is a great and easy to use process manager with support for various programming languages. We at Future Studio love PM2 and use it for all our apps. Each individual application can be started separately using the command line or you can benefit from multiple or just a single …

PM2 gives you the opportunity to create advanced application configurations, also known as a process file or ecosystem file. Within those process files, you can define environment variables and make them only available to the related application. Even further, PM2 provides the feature to create multiple environments with completely different …

Last week we’ve learned about CoreOS’ components and technologies within the ecosystem. This week, we’re directly diving into the practical part and get our hands dirty. If you read the first post, you already know that CoreOS is an operating system geared towards high-availability. Setting up a cluster …

It has been a long journey to this last planned post of the PM2 series. We want to wrap up the series and hope you’ve learned a lot throughout the weeks. Every new article covered a separate topic and should help you to improve your application process management on …

You’ve already noticed that we’re adoring fanboys of PM2 to manage our Node.js processes. We heavily rely on PM2 to keep the Future Studio platform permanently available for you. That also includes customizations related to Node.js (like memory limit) itself. PM2 allows you to pass arguments …

The previous published posts within this series, you’ve learned about the built-in features of PM2. This week, we’re going to explore a very handy feature of the utility: a built-in module system. This module system allows you to add custom functionality to PM2 by installing modules to PM2 …

Everyone is seeking for productivity boosts day by day, like learning new shortcuts in your favorite IDE, a new command on the Unix shell or something else. If you’re just starting out or already familiar with PM2 commands, it’s always nice to have an auto-completion feature. This post …

Log handling is an essential key factor in process management. Even though you might not be interested in your logs if everything went smooth. Wait for your first downtime and app failures and you’ll find your fastest way to get proper information about the current application situation within your …