Checklists are a step-by-step list of instructions to follow. They can help you plan for handling complex events or multi-step procedures. A good checklist increases your confidence in what you are doing. They're great tools for rare events, complex ...
Our website uses Jekyll, a static site framework. I chose Jekyll to help us manage a large amount of content. Managing all of our site content in a code repository means we can manipulate all sorts of things with a little bit of code. One thing I've...
A long-term client of ours had managed their web applications in a colocation data center for several years. Their apps ran on snowflake servers: unique, manually configured servers that could not be easily replaced. Snowflake servers pose a disaster...
New clients often ask why we use Ruby on Rails to build web apps. Unless they know a Rails developer, they probably haven't heard of it. And Rails developers usually have very strong opinions about Rails. Oftentimes clients' questions about Ruby on R...
We recently started a new API project for an existing web application. The existing app has no API, and our client wants to create a fresh mobile app experience. Our new API will support the mobile app, and will exist alongside the existing web app....
We sometimes wish to add an extra layer of authorization between end users and the API. An nginx reverse proxy is a simple way to do so.
