Our client is written in Javascript using Ember.js framework. If you don’t know Ember.js, it announces itself as a framework for creating ambitious client-side web applications. When you look at the main Travis CI web client (link), you may wonder what’s so ambitious about it – it dis...
Whether you love it or hate it, the holiday season is officially here. Your inbox is clogged with holiday offers, you’ve heard George Michael’s “Last Christmas” one too many times, your neighbor has put out a pair of freaky animated LED reindeer, and you’re scrambling to finish your s...
Eamon Leonard is VP of Engineering at Engine Yard, the leading Platform as a Service for deploying, managing and scaling cloud applications . Eamon is a startup advisor, entrepreneur and passionate PHP community leader. Follow him at @EamonLeonard . Whether you love it or hate it, the...
Because your MySQL could be compiled differently, you can learn what engines your MySQL server supports, and the engines current status using the SHOW ENGINES query. You may see more, or less than those listed below.
The majority of Engine Yard Cloud customers run one application in an environment and many of them customize their application’s environments (production, staging, etc) using custom recipes. We do the same thing internally[1]. One thing we like to do is to run our custom recipes durin...
Email blacklisting occurs when your mail server’s IP address is added to a list and other mail servers begin rejecting your email. This occurs because the list you were added to is meant to protect companies from spam. One way to end up on this list is to send an email to a honeypot —...
Let’s face it: outages are a pain. They’re also unavoidable. Whether your application is in the cloud or on physical hardware, it’s bound to encounter failures eventually. To help mitigate these failures, we recommend using a High Availability (HA) configuration for mission-critical a...
I am very excited to announce that your Engine Yard Cloud account can provision new environments in an Australia datacenter. This is in part thanks to our infrastructure provider Amazon, and part due to the quick work by our Engine Yard engineers to add and test the new region. We alr...
This is an Engine Yard PSA for all of our customers to make sure you aware of and taking full advantage of the monitoring that is included with our platform! Here is an overview about Engine Yard Cloud’s monitoring: https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/20996816-about-monitorin...
2012 is almost over and we want to give everyone an update on what the Data Team has been working on. We have a new database version available for all customers, and a preview of what will be shipping soon. So sit tight because we have a lot to tell! First, let’s talk about Postgres. ...
Over the past few months we’ve noticed that some cloud terminology has been confusing for customers, so this is an Engine Yard PSA to help people understand how to achieve a more highly available (HA) environment. While the public perception is that servers in the cloud are removed fr...
2012 is almost over and we want to give everyone an update on what the Data Team has been working on. We have a new database version available for all customers, and a preview of what will be shipping soon. So sit tight because we have a lot to tell! First, let’s talk about Postgres. ...
As you can see, Engine Yard Local serves as a nifty way to save you from going through the process of signing up for an account, configuring everything, deploying your application, and paying for your instances – only to find out that something is not working. With Engine Yard Local, ...
As you can see, Engine Yard Local serves as a nifty way to save you from going through the process of signing up for an account, configuring everything, deploying your application, and paying for your instances – only to find out that something is not working. With Engine Yard Local, ...
Engine Yard was founded in 2006 to help professional developers create and deliver great applications. By providing a commercial-grade application platform, Engine Yard lets developers focus on writing code instead of managing complex application environments. Six years later, there a...
Engine Yard was founded in 2006 to help professional developers create and deliver great applications. By providing a commercial-grade application platform, Engine Yard lets developers focus on writing code instead of managing complex application environments. Six years later, there a...
Automated testing makes development agile, and Continuous Integration takes the human error out of “manually run” automated testing. But getting a continuous integration environment working smoothly for your organization can be daunting, whether you hacked it all together, bought some...
There’s nothing glamorous about it. You are not a rockstar, but a janitor. You will clean a lot of data. A LOT. Most people don’t and won’t care about data. That’s right.. There is a lot of mathematics involved. Get over it. Some people will get offended with your findings. People are...
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There’s nothing glamorous about it. You are not a rockstar, but a janitor. You will clean a lot of data. A LOT. Most people don’t and won’t care about data. That’s right.. There is a lot of mathematics involved. Get over it. Some people will get offended with your findings. People are...
There’s nothing glamorous about it. You are not a rockstar, but a janitor. You will clean a lot of data. A LOT. Most people don’t and won’t care about data. That’s right.. There is a lot of mathematics involved. Get over it. Some people will get offended with your findings. People are...
Smart and passionate about software, you care about customers. Hopefully, you’re active in Open Source, or you participate in community conversations or meetups. You welcome challenges, and enjoy working closely with both local and distributed teammates. You’ve automated hoards of ser...
