Electron, the popular framework for building desktop apps, has much to recommend it: It allows developers to quickly build feature-rich desktop apps and deploy them directly to end-users. No wonder industry leaders like WordPress, Slack, and Discord use it to create the desktop versions of their browser-based apps. But while Electron is based on web…
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With the rise of cloud-oriented software stacks and development methodologies in recent years, use of Java Application Servers such as Tomcat and Weblogic has decreased. But it’s way premature to consign Java Application Servers to the list of outmoded technologies: Along with the many existing Java Application Server solutions that are still doing the jobs…
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A few weeks ago we installed Datadog in our staging and production environments. All in all, it was a smooth ride, with a few small hiccups that we resolved along the way. If you’re about to install Datadog and your environment is similar to ours (with Kubernetes, Python and these other goodies) you should find…
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A genius friend of mine used to say – “Just do bugless oriented programming- when you code, if you see you’re about to write a bug- simply don’t – it saves a lot of time”. As bugless oriented remains a concept for gods, we mere mortals better find other practical approaches that actually work. Software…
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It all started when I was testing Rookout on Docker (with Alpine and Python). Rookout is a new approach to data collection and pipelining from live code. We basically allow developers to request any piece of data with just a few clicks and view it on their machine in any framework, cloud, and the environment…
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A few days ago we announced Rookout’s official launch and $4.2 million in funding by TLV Partners and Emerge. Obviously, this is a very important milestone in the company’s life and a great moment for us to stop and reflect on the road we have traveled so far. From humble cyber beginnings When Liran and…
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