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We're writing about the technologies we use and about the projects we're working on.
While you’re working on a Ruby on Rails application, Rails’ build-in Puma
development server is serving your public folder, no question. With
RAILS_ENV=production, Puma doesn’t, and this is a very useful default. You
don’t want that valuable Ruby worker threads are busy serving files from the
harddrive. How can we access the application’s public folder from a different
docker container?
Git is the most relevant source code management system as of today. In this blog post, we explain our set of useful conventions that we follow when working with branches, tags and commit messages. We consider it suitable for small teams of up to five developers.
Let’s assume you have a simple root server and want to deploy a demo
environment for your application. There is an easy docker-compose
template you can use to deploy a ready-to-use environment.
In the life of any software project there are bugs. Granted, there are different types of bugs, but you will never encounter a software project in which everything goes as planned. This post describes how to report on bugs in a way that helps your developers to quickly fix them.
A big part of software development is quality assurance. We want to make sure that we implement the correct behaviour according to specifications and that we don’t introduce bugs when deploying a new version. For this, every project depends on a rigorous testing process, either manual or automated. We like to let our development process be guided by automated tests so most of the time they become the first code we write.
You want to sell digital goods, typically some kind of stream or download, like software, logos, designs, webinars, ebooks and so on. Should you simply add a PayPal or Stripe checkout to your website? We compare the concepts of payment providers and resellers.
Ready, set, go! You started your project with a team you trust. All the planning is done, the team knows your goals and gets to work. The first artifact is ready for testing after a two-week kick-off sprint. You are amazed by how quickly first changes are implemented. You give feedback and adjust some requirements for the next sprint. After a few weeks your desired changes are made and some more features are implemented.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a toolkit to deploy web application server environments to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud. It is designed to get a new environment running as quickly as possible. Everything can be done from the command-line which helps automating the process.
This post describes how to deploy a new Ruby on Rails application with Sidekiq to the Elastic Compute Cloud leveraging its database services (AWS Relational Database Service and AWS ElastiCache).
Docker helps packaging software into reusable containers. This allows not only for standardized development environment across your team, but also for scaling your production deployments on most major cloud platforms. This post explains how to dockerize a Ruby on Rails app with PostGreSQL, Redis and Sidekiq.
In the article “Why an MVP?” I described what an MVP is and what the development process looks like. This is based on the idea that there should be no assumptions without data to support them. The same holds true during the development process.
In the initial phase of a project stands an unimaginable drive to carve out the most awesome feature set that could be. All stakeholders seem to have an almost infinite set of ideas which is obvious to each and everyone and therefore should be included in a first draft of requirements before it’s too late.
Your business grow, you need more power, you want to change your hosting provider - there can be a lot of reasons to move production applications from one server to another. If there is no simple way to scale an application, plus you need to update DNS entries, there may be a downtime while these DNS changes propagate. Perhaps, some proxy servers, Google, Microsoft or whoever disrespect your shortened DNS TTL? I’ll combine some nice and uncommon Linux networking features to completely avoid that downtime.
With Meteor’s application bundles for iOS and Android, you’re ahead of many other web apps, because your client side JavaScript code will be available offline. Having that bonus, getting accepted for Apple’s App Store is easy - if you properly handle a lost connection to the server. I’ll showcase a simple, extendable solution.
Today, we’re moving on to the next popular platform with you and show you how to bundle a Meteor application as an iOS app. Of course, the codebase remains the same again! We will cover all the necessary parts and steps you need on macOS Sierra.
We want to show you how easy it is to bundle a Meteor application as an Android app. Use the same code-base and get a snappy app on top. We will tell you about the required prerequisites and steps.
Hello, yippee, we’ve just setup a blog using the great Jekyll project! In this blog, we’re going to publish articles about the technologies we use, about the projects we’re working on and perhaps sometimes about ourselves :-)
We develop custom software using modern web technologies. These enable us to cover a variety of different applications, such as interactive online platforms, mobile apps or software systems for business-internal use. How are we going to make your software project thrive?
