When we’re building an app, we sometimes have to choose tools to help us manage servers and make our life and work easier. At Netguru, we work on many applications, and we manage a lot of servers, so here we present a list of tools we use on a daily basis - tools which we like and would recommend using.

There are plenty of places where you can host your Rails application online. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages and very often you will need to strike a balance between configurability and maintenance costs. How do you choose the best solution then?

The results from the new study “State of Stack” conducted by Netguru and Typeform suggest that the future is far from bright for devops. Numbers don’t lie: devops engineers are not big fans of the precise server setup and they prefer much simpler solutions.