For the next interview in our series speaking to technical leads from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced CTO Mahe Rangareddy. Mahe Rangareddy is the Chief Technology Officer at Alpha Omega Integration, a government contracting company in Tysons VA. An expert in data analytics, he promotes innovation and improvement within the company.
In this blog post I want to share a story of a performance bottleneck using the filesystem that we experienced in our development setup. In the Tideways backend, we have a simple homegrown database migration tool that scans a directory for.sql files and applies them if not already done. It is a very old piece of code that I used since before the times of doctrine/migrations. It is much simpler but works for us.
Make your customers comfortable opening their data to you with data pipelines that feel like they’re part of your product.
Changes in the upcoming Phoenix 1.7 release have led us to re-think how AppSignal for Phoenix works. AppSignal for Phoenix version 2.2.0 introduces our changes to make upgrading to Phoenix 1.7 easier. In this blog post, we'll outline what's changed and why.
As of today (06/12/2022), Hanami 2.0.1 has been released. Read more about the enhancements, bug fixes and gems in release 2.0.1. Hanami 2 was released on 22 November, concluding four years of work on this version. It brings a breath of fresh air into Ruby's web development community. Version 2.0 is not just an incremental upgrade. One could say it's a project written anew, with bright ideas from version one rebuilt on top of a solid dry-rb libraries ecosystem.
When you have an annual event at school or university, the teacher always assigns separate tasks to different groups of students. Have you ever wondered why she does that? Well, not only does it lighten the load on her but working in a group also makes you more productive and offers you more choices than when you were working alone. In addition, you learn to organize and coordinate with teams and ultimately produce a better result.
Learn how using a real device cloud can help resolve mobile app test errors and help teams streamline debugging. The content of this post is excerpted from the Sauce Labs webinar Resolve Mobile App Test Failures and Errors Faster with Kristian DeVito, Senior Solution Engineer at Sauce Labs. Bad customer experiences on mobile apps are costly—faced with crashes, freezes, or wait times, frustrated users will abandon brands, share negative reviews, or even simply uninstall the app.
What an incredible week in Las Vegas for this year’s annual AWS re:Invent conference. The last time we were in-person for re:Invent pre-Covid, the show had grown to over 60,000 attendees. This year the energy and sheer volume of activity felt like we were right back there. The difference from 2019 in where the industry is, however, was readily on display throughout the week.
Programming languages are a critical aspect of the application development process. The language is what allows you to instruct the technology in a way the computer understands. However, choosing the right programming language for your application is often a big dilemma. There are a lot of programming languages to choose from, like JavaScript, C++ and PHP, to name just a few. There are several other factors as well, such as security and maintainability, which must be considered.
