How to collect aggregated statistics in a Ruby on Rails application?

  It is important to collect aggregated statistics so that management can analyze the data and make well-informed decisions.  Sphere was retained by a client in the recruiting industry who, among other things, needed to collect the following data: Total shifts posted Total hours posted Total shifts worked Total hours worked Average length of shifts

March 13th, 2015|

Emulating Life Cycles during Testing Automated

Testing Automation has become standard industry practice, saving quality assurance engineers the time and effort required for manual testing while enhancing overall code efficiency and accuracy. It also allows companies to reduce costs while speeding up product release times. These benefits can become especially apparent when developers are testing web

March 13th, 2015|

Beginners Tips for Kickstart Software Testing

  Software testing is a highly specialized, quickly evolving field. New packages and procedures are being introduced every day, and automated testing methods are increasingly replacing manual methods, significantly speeding up release times while ensuring high-quality code. Navigating through this fast-paced, demanding field can be difficult, especially for junior testers and trainees. Many inexperienced testers

March 13th, 2015|

Introducing Objstore Cluster, a Multi-Master Distributed Caching Layer for Amazon S3

  Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, is a cloud storage platform that gives developers the ability to securely collect, store, and analyze their data with almost unlimited scalability. It has proven to be fast and reliable — a PaaS solution that acts like a backbone for many business applications — and gives customers

March 13th, 2015|

How to use Docker for updating Old Production Applications?

  When working on continuously expanding projects over long periods of time, software developers often come across code that must be updated in order for the project to progress. If the code is outdated, preparing the environment and launching certain applications become problematic. Docker is an open-source, virtual environment tool primarily used on Linux and

March 13th, 2015|