One big challenge in a monorepo is to determine which components need to be rebuilt and consequently – deployed. The market offers us a couple of solutions, with Bazel ahead. All of them force repository owner (and users) to make enormous adaptations to build a system. Long-term earnings from using unified system pays-off, but could…
Even though we all know that having a secure and reliable website is crucial for building an image of a trustworthy company it is common to neglect the aspect of making sure that the produced software is well tested and secured properly. It probably comes from the urge of minimizing the Time-to-market or introducing as…
Recently Michał, our CEO, and I had the opportunity to participate in Craft Conf in Budapest. The event was a software craftsmanship conference. With 2200 attendees from all over the continent it is one of the biggest such conferences in Central Europe. The six presentation tracks were filled with a fantastic international speaker list such…
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,…
Intro I would like to give an overview of how we manage our fleet of hundreds of physical servers. How to scale, what problems you might face, what is good and what can kick your ass. It is not another story about deployment automation. This is more about our learning path which showed us that handing…
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…