Serverless – AllTheThings (Part 2 of 3)
Serverless computing helps organizations automate resource scaling and reduce computing costs. In the second article in our series on serverless software architecture, Lucas Still shows how to set up a front end serverless environment.
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Serverless – AllTheThings (Part 1 of 3)
Serverless software architecture reduces maintenence and operation costs of computing, provides scalable, on demand data storage, and works for all languages, frameworks, and technologies. Modus Software Architect Lucas Still breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of serverless software architecture with AWS.
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Performance Remediation using New Relic and JMeter, Part 3 of 3
New Relic and JMeter identify and help to solve your application’s biggest issues, and are our recommended tools for performance remediation. Richard Bullington-McGuire discusses best practices for the tools, database queries, caching, horizontal scaling, synchronous processing, and more.
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How to Track Multiple Git Branches in AWS CodePipeline
CodePipeline is an impressive CI/CD service by AWS. Architect Lucas Still outlines best practices and approaches to setting up CodePipeline with your git repository in his step-by-step tutorial.
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Auditing Web Performance Continuously with Gimbal
The latest open source application developed by our Modus Labs team, Gimbal simplifies and automates the process of performance tracking. Learn how Gimbal can integrate with your existing setup to monitor your web apps.
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Setting Up A Monorepo React App with Yarn
For larger applications, structuring and managing folders and modules can be difficult. Monorepo is a multi-package structure used to consolidate code under one repository. Learn how to set up Monorepo with Yarn!
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Just One Tiny Fix
Imagine a time when you just had to make a change. You know the one, the really small one, that fixes that very special issue… on a production environment. One may think of a thousand reasons not to. Using continuous integration, and properly separated yet perfectly similar environments might come at the top of the…
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Performance Remediation using New Relic and JMeter, Part 2 of 3
When everything is on fire, where should you throw the first bucket of water? To fix bad performance, you have to profile. Figuring out where to start can be overwhelming, especially when your system performs OK under normal daily loads but collapses when a traffic spike hits you. This is part 2 of 3 in…
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Setup Jenkins On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Jenkins is an open source, free software automation server written in Java. Jenkins provides a wide range of plugins for building, deploying, testing and automating. For continuous deployments, Jenkins helps by speeding up processes such as building software or jobs ran by cron, monitoring, and execution of repeated jobs. Jenkins automates the non-human part of…
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Ionic/Cordova: How to Debug on a Device with Visual Studio Code
Modus loves Ionic! As an Ionic Trusted Partner, we do a lot of hybrid app development for various clients using Ionic Framework. Clients love it because they get to deploy their app to multiple app stores (Google Play, Apple’s App Store, and more) for the price of developing a single app! Developers love it because…
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