Hosting a Ruby on Rails App - DevOps Solutions Comparison: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Heroku and Digital Ocean
Natalia Chrzanowska
At some point, you will have to decide where to host your amazing RoR application. Choosing between dozens of excellent hosting providers might not be so easy. Choosing each provider will have its own trade-offs in terms of price, deployment and configuration flexibility, and scalability to name a few. To make your choice easier, we have compared eight major RoR hosting providers. Depending on your application requirements and budget, you can make the right choice using our description of key strengths and weaknesses of these hosting providers.
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Most web applications are fundamentally similar. They get input from users and then process and store it. The end result usually shows the processed input to users in the form of an output. Such applications are usually called CRUDs (create, read, update and delete). This means that the infrastructure (the core components that work together) needed to support a typical product can stay almost the same for the majority of different kinds of startups. In this article, I show what are those core components and how to design the infrastructure in a way that it is efficient, scalable (it grows along with the product) and cost-effective.
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How can we avoid the headache of having too many and too heavy features or services? Add more resources? Do some refactoring? Pile up external services? But what if users keep coming back with more requests for new features?
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Can a single mistake of a software developer ruin an entire company? The answer is yes, but only if the company doesn’t know how to learn from its past mistakes and grow as an organisation.
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Recently, the trend for “serverless” started gaining a lot of traction both among developers and business people. As you’re reading this, you might be wondering, what on Earth does the new buzzword, serverless, even mean.
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Invented by the founders of Trello, Glitch is said to be the friendly community where you can build a web app of your dreams. It holds out the promise of revolution in the way we develop software. The idea behind it is to give developers a hospitable and free environment to code, create apps, remix and modify them without a bulk of unnecessary coding tools that raise barriers to your creativity. With Glitch developers can create apps with ease and instantly deploy them. The platform is fairly new, with not so many users who have tested it so far, so we decided to give it a go and see how it delivers on its promises.
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Quite recently, we've figured out that we can improve our internal flow in terms of answering clients' calls, coming primarily from abroad. The idea was to build a simple app that will intercept incoming calls, post a Slack notification and allow us to answer these calls through a web browser using Twilio number. That’s how Callio was born. In this article, you will find a comprehensive guide on how it works and how to integrate it with your account.
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The article was originally published on ITProPortal. When you build a great product, sooner or later, it will be attracting more and more users who will expect a performant, irreproachable app. As the app grows in time it handles more requests per minute. If you’re not prepared for this the app performance will drop and you will potentially lose your audience. In this blog post we explain what you should pay attention to when building a scalable app.
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Does using docker to reduce disk clutter and time spent on setting up a new machine sound good? It definitely did to me. In this article, I’ll show you how to get started with a dockerized development environment, so you can get a taste of what it’s like. I’ll also give you some suggestions near the end on how to learn what you need to know about this tool.
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GraphQL is a fairly new technology that will let you adjust your data requirements on the fly and increase the efficiency of your app while keeping your current stack.
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