As a young SaaS startup, managing your day to day development tasks is as essential as it gets. And so, although we’ve only been around for about a year, we have already fully migrated to Trello, then to Flow, and then to GitHub Issues in our search for the perfect issue-tracking software. Recently, we’ve made…
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When I started coding, my professors taught me that copy-pasting code from the internet is the worst thing a dev can do. It almost felt like an army boot camp, with the drill sergeant screaming: “What will you do in the battlefield, soldier? What will you do when you’re a full-stack developer, and you can’t…
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A Kuberentes Ingress is a collection of rules that allow inbound connections to reach cluster services. It can be configured to give services externally-reachable URLs, load balance traffic, terminate SSL, offer name-based virtual hosting, and more. Nginx ingresses are pretty much the default choice for cloud-agnostic ingresses, and it was our choice as well. That…
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If you’ve written code for LoadRunner, you may have been lucky enough to work with The Master. If you were calm and patient, you may have even been shown The Way. The great secret. The lost, ancient art of opening the perfect bug. A bug that no dev can close as “description not clear/does not…
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Technology is constantly transitioning, and in this state of continuous ‘in-between’, hybrid is king. From manual to automated, physical to virtual, on-prem to the cloud, and now monolith to microservices and serverless. Serverless today is a fresh and blooming ecosystem, yet when it comes to making the transition to serverless (or microservices) the future…
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The holiday season is the perfect time for working on my pet project. Everyone is off with their families. Email is quiet, Github is silent, Jira is calm. Even the customers are taking some time off. Which means I can use this opportunity to invest in what really matters. Of course, I could spend some quality…
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If you’re developing a Java application, you’re likely using an APM, an exception management tool or a tracing solution. For any of those tools, you have probably faced the common challenge of monitoring a Java application: installing an instrumentation Agent. Java monitoring is performed by instrumentation agents called Java Agents and VM Agents. Both of…
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In this article, I’ll try to explain why the hell Rookout, a relatively new SaaS company, chose to use Jenkins, and what are the big advantages that make Jenkins so great even now, eight years in. In the last few years, the devops world has changed rapidly: We’ve moved from one big monolith architecture into…
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As an entrepreneur and the CTO of a young startup, keeping a close eye on the product is at the top of my priorities. To keep improving the product, I’m always alert to new issues; and seeing those issues from different perspectives is key to resolving problems before users are affected. This is where monitoring…
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By making it easier than ever to add powerful new microservices, Kubernetes has become a driving force behind companies breaking up monolith apps and transforming them into microservice architectures. But as their numbers grow, the cost of managing microservices and the dependencies between them increase exponentially as well. This makes things more complicated than many…
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