As the video’s for Code Beam STO 2018 are released, I thought it would be a great time to share some of my thoughts on this year’s conference. This was my sixth year attending the conference (historically known as “Erlang User Conference”) and my second time presenting. As always, the conference was well organised and…
Our CTO Konrad Kaplita recently visited the rzemiosloIT conference in Rzeszow. As well as Appliscale being a Silver sponsor of the event we were delighted to have Konrad as a speaker. Konrads spoke about the challenges and opportunities he has faced while leading a development team for a large advertising technology company. The main focus…
As we announced in the previous blog post over the last few months we have been working on the tool, which will make using CloudFormation way easier. We are aware of lots of difficulties assigned to creating infrastructure with the help of CloudFormation, that is why we want to present you our brand new tool…
Next up in our series of developer tools is JMap. There are plenty of errors or issues that might go wrong with your Java application, but there is one that happens more often than others – OutOfMemoryError, related to Java objects memory issues. Once your application throws one of these, your first target is Java…
There are a lot of different Linux tools that can be used to profile and instrument executables. Some of them are non-intrusive and do not require any modification of our source code or build process, even sometimes do not introduce any runtime overhead. Others can increase the time needed to execute code up to few…
CloudFormation is one of the AWS Services, that allows you to describe your infrastructure as a template (either YAML or JSON) and easily turn this descriptive form into a real, working AWS environment. Although it leads to vast reduction of point-and-click horror of traveling through Amazon Web Services Console, the CloudFormation itself has few rough…
Over the course of your day as a developer, you use many tools. Appliscale engineers have a few favourites they would like to share with you over the coming weeks. First up is a dive into /proc. Over the next few posts, we will also look at Jmap, Gprof and Netstat. /proc You may wonder,…
The GSMA Mobile World Congress is surely the largest mobile technology oriented exhibition on the globe and we could not miss it! The MWC took place in Barcelona, Spain, from February 26th to the first day of March. To our surprise this year the sunny capital of Catalonia welcomed us with snow. We attended the…
Appliscale is delighted to be attending Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona. Business in Malpolska has arranged for a collection of high potential Malpolska based companies to experience the Congress. It is an excellent opportunity to develop closer relationships within the Polish ecosystem while doing some serious networking. Appliscale have extensive experience in telecoms,…
Appliscale CEO Michal recently had the pleasure of attending an event recognising high potential companies in the Krakowski Park Technologiczny SSE zone. …