The Infrastructure automation dilemma There comes a time when every cloud computing project has to make a difficult choice – should we automate infrastructure or not? There are pros and cons but at a certain scale, automation is something you cannot escape. Immediately after you decide to automate the provisioning of your cloud infrastructure, another…
Pawel recently joined Appliscale. Based in Katowice, Pawel has considerable Java and Dev Ops experience. He is already knee deep in code as well as nappies! Pawel in his own words….. Pawel is an easy-going guy who doesn’t look like a software engineer at first glance (What does a software engineer look like ?). Under…
Appliscale will be represented at this years ElixirConf.EU 2017. Wojciech continues to clock up serious conference mileage as a serial attendee and presenter. As 1/3 of the Katowice trio, he will be presenting along with Artur and Michal in Barcelona. The group will be delivering a tutorial titled ‘Join the Elixir Fire Brigade – Level-up Your…
Now that all of the I’s have dotted we would like to welcome Eain to the team. Eain will be working to develop our existing customer relationships and to develop new partnerships. Based in Wexford in the South East of Ireland and a regular visitor to Krakow, Eain will divide his time between Poland and…
Yesterday at Erlang Solution office Wojtek Gawroński delivered a great talk taking everybody on a journey through the internals of Erlang VM and compilation process. He explained how he managed to create a compiler that turns BrainFuck code into BEAM VM byte code. You can see the presentation below. For the source code check out his github page.
January was a remarkably busy period for us. New year, new challenges and the NEW office in Krakow. We just moved to a nearby HERBEWO OFFICE COMPLEX at Prądnicka 4 Street. You can find us on the 1st floor. We’re almost done with furnishing and equipping our new headquarters. With 144 square meters of space, nice…
Yesterday we came again to Katowice to attend Functional Miners meetup. Konrad performed some live programming showing and discussing with attendants core concepts of functional programming. You can check the it here. Be warned! This is pretty advanced stuff 😉 For functional enthusiasts only. Konrad Kaplita – Functional Programming Building Blocks https://t.co/Xbsup6Krl5 — Functional Miners (@fun_miners) December 15, 2016
Why automate Jenkins? Have you ever managed a Jenkins that had more than 100 jobs and somebody asked you to modify every last one of them? Let’s say that your infrastructure resembles the one from this diagram: Imagine that you manage hundreds of servers on a daily basis using Jenkins jobs and you have come…
Konrad gave a great talk about scaling and maintaining large scale RTB at rg-dev meetup in Rzeszów last week. The crowd was amazing! About 100 people came and listened how you can process billions of requests on hundreds of machines using just a small team of engineers. You can see Konrad’s slides here or below.
You can’t stop Wojtek easily 😉 He just gave yet another presentation @ DevOpsDays in Warsaw. This time Wojtek was presenting how we bundled PagerDuty, Twilio and simple Heroku app to route our on call number according to PagerDuty schedule. This solution simplified our lives while we provide 24h support for mission critical distributed systems. Check the…