AWS is incredibly popular with companies of all sizes. One of the big reasons is the cost savings realized from moving your infrastructure to the cloud.
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Modern web applications have to take thousands and millions of requests from users or clients and return the correct text, images, video, or application data, all in a fast and reliable manner.
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Ensuring that your web application provides an excellent user experience could be a full time job. Using a load balancer, you can efficiently improve your web application’s user experience…
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The internet seems like the most simple thing we have right now. If I want to watch a video and send it to various people, I just have to click a few buttons. But web applications are more complicated than just having some buttons.
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The goal of a web application is to have it automate the things you can’t do. You will have to fix things manually if you are a developer, no matter what. But if something unexpected happens to your application, like if your server is unavailable or slow due to traffic, then you probably want it to handle that problem itself.
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At DevFactory, we are obsessed with innovating across the software development life cycle. Today we are delighted to announce that we are merging Ignite ScaleArc Solutions, Inc. into DevFactory.
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At Engine Yard we are on a continuous journey to provide you with tools to minimize your operational burden, moving you towards friction free NoOps application deployments. Today we are pleased to share an exciting new capability which was one of the top asks from our Ruby community. Yes, we are talking about support for containers in Engine Yard.
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Jay Fields is the author of Working Effectively with Unit Tests, the author of Refactoring: Ruby Edition, a software engineer at DRW Trading. He has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. He has worked as both a full-time employee and consultant for many years.
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The Leprechauns of Software Engineering’, which debunks myths common in Software Engineering. He explains how folklore turns into fact and what to do about it. More specifically we hear about findings of his research into the primary sources of theories like the 10X Programmer, the Exponential Defect Cost Curve and the Software Crisis.
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The reality is that code reviews can frequently be an uncomfortable experience for everyone involved, leading to reviews that are combative, ineffective, or even worse, simply not happening.
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Vue (pronounced as view) calls itself the progressive JavaScript framework. It is designed to be incrementally adoptable. You can use Vue to build user interfaces on a few pages or a few areas of an existing Rails view. You don’t have to throw away existing Rails code.
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The business advantages of using cloud services are obvious: You can rent computing resources rather than having to buy and manage them, and you can make changes faster since there is no on-site hardware to deal with.
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When you need customized enterprise solutions, do you tend to hire the expertise you need to develop the necessary applications or do you contract it out? When you consider that added overhead of hiring a full-stack developer salary, you may find it more cost-effective to rent the expertise you need rather than hire it.
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Ruby on Rails is now firmly in the mainstream. A steady stream of people have good reasons to want to use Rails but don’t know where to begin. The resource list below is a solid starting. It includes tutorials, books, blogs, podcasts…
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We interviewed Adam Tornhill, a software architect who combines degrees in Engineering and Psychology to get a different perspective on software. We discuss his book…
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Management is not about being in charge. We usually associate the term “manager” with people managers. At first glance, a people manager’s job consists of bossing people around – telling them what to do. For example, engineering managers no longer write much code…
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We are continuing to support and enhance our current solution that allows companies to seamlessly load balance their existing databases and effortlessly scale their solutions as demand necessitates.
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Unplanned downtime is a nightmare scenario for every digital company today. Even a few minutes of downtime can frustrate end users and drive away potential customers.
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