As developers, we’re in the business of continually bettering ourselves. Part of that process is pushing ourselves to learn and use better code patterns, try
In the modern web, API-based projects are becoming the norm. Why? For one thing, APIs are necessary to serve Single Page Applications, which are all
Note: This blog was originally published on tylerbird.org earlier this year. It was recently updated for publication on the Engine Yard blog.
Cloud APIs allow engineers to control all layers of the cloud, from provisioning new VMs to altering specific software services. There are several competing cloud
First, here’s a handy reference implementation of a thread pool in Ruby:
Bash Automated Test System or “Bats”, written by sstephenson, is a testing framework written for and in the Bash command language. The best thing about
There are two kinds of apps for the cloud: ones that work and ones that don’t. The ones that work are called Twelve Factor apps,
I was one of the original developers on Orchestra, the PHP PaaS that Engine Yard acquired in 2011. Many of our customers were using PaaS
Note: Our friends at The Hybrid Group wrote this great post on how to use WebSockets for us. Thanks guys!
The code for this article is available on GitHub: Well App Tried all the basic examples and ready to build a “real” app? This article
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