Amazon Redshift is a well-known data warehouse solution with PostgreSQL background. Definitely, it may even be your first choice for Big Data management in the cloud. However, do you know all the possibilities that it brings? In this article, I would like to describe how to improve the way your database is queried in order…
Why Phoenix Last year we had the opportunity to develop an enterprise-class platform using the Elixir language. Our client was interested in the speed and flexibility. Requests for a software written in Elixir are rare. Nevertheless, we didn’t hesitate to pick up the gauntlet. Apart from the language requirement, we were left with a choice…
AWS ECS, which stands for Elastic Container Service is an orchestration tool for containerized workloads in the AWS cloud. At the moment of writing, ECS is almost 5 years old so the core functionality of the service is familiar to the cloud community. The auto-scaling of this service could be sometimes not straightforward. However, recent…
At the beginning of March we had a web hacker’s day! We divided into 4 teams and each team’s goal was to hack into a specially predesigned web application. The first task was to find the scoreboard, which was hidden on the website. Later on, It was only harder… Everyone was so fascinated by the…
Company events in Appliscale usually involve nice beverages, great food and awesome people! Since a lot of us love to play board games – in February we organized a board game party. This time it wasn’t only a board game event but our colleague’s farewell party as well. We prepared a special gift for him…