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Giving Our Customers More Choice with Windows Azure 26 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford Building a company is hard work. The kind of hard work that breaks your back, gives you nightma...
Polyglot Background Jobs 26 Jun 2013 | 12:05 am
There's many things we end up needing to perform background jobs for; but the main reason is to provide a snappy, non-blocking user experience. Whether that task is encoding a video file, batch data ...
June 21, 2013: This Week at Engine Yard 22 Jun 2013 | 02:38 am
We spent most of this week getting ready for an exciting announcement that will be made later next week. But I obviously can’t say what that is. So instead I will point you to some adorable animal pho...
How to Troubleshoot PostgerSQL Alerts 21 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
So you have your PostgreSQL application deployed on Engine Yard Cloud and everything is going great. You have enabled a few extensions, have added basic redundancy by spinning a database replica, and ...
Announcing Composer Support 19 Jun 2013 | 01:55 am
We’re pleased to announce Composer support for PHP applications. This has been one of our most requested features, and should make it even easier for you to manage your apps. If you’re already using ...
June 14, 2013: This Week at Engine Yard 14 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
This is the week a big chunk of the San Francisco development team went on a roadtrip to our Portland office to do some intense cross-office feature pollination. Things may have started out with some ...
You Cannot Win Engineering 14 Jun 2013 | 12:51 am
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of Saturday Night Live and improvisational theater. Improv looks chaotic and uncontrolled, but the best practitioners operate under strict rules that gov...
June 7, 2013: This Week at Engine Yard 8 Jun 2013 | 03:41 am
Things are pretty busy right now as we ship a bunch of customer enhancements on Engine Yard Cloud and continue with our planned infrastructure abstractions and cluster model improvements. Exciting thi...
Speaking at Conferences: How to write a talk and get it accepted 8 Jun 2013 | 01:38 am
At php[tek] 2013, Engine Yard sponsored the Mentorship Summit, a special forum to discuss the value of mentoring to create more connections and advancement opportunities for developers. A common theme...
Hash lookup in Ruby, why is it so fast? 4 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pm
Note: Our friend and CEO at Crowd Interactive, David Padilla, wrote this great piece about hash lookup in Ruby. Be sure to check out MagmaConf! Have you ever noticed that in Ruby looking for a specif...
