To create effective and efficient software tools, your design must undergo a serious testing process. This procedure has to be thorough so that any issues are resolved well before the software’s distribution. Although a comprehensive evaluation is required, there are ways to optimize this task, decrease the effort and make
This year, we attended Digital Summit Chicago -- a digital marketing conference featuring thought leaders from companies like Microsoft, AOL, Pandora, and AllRecipes.com. Below, we wrote up our favorite insights that we learned from this event. These best practices can be utilized by any tech company to compliment their sales strategy. B2B Marketing and
A quick reminder about producing text messages in Ruby. Talk to the world The basic method for text output is puts from IO: puts “Hello World” # Hello World With interpolation it’s possible to insert some expression in a string: age = 2016-1990 puts “I’m #{age} years old” # I’m
Terraform and Jenkins allow us to implement push-button creation of our infrastructure as needed, on demand, with thoroughly tested code that is predictable, efficient, and reliable.
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. While artificial intelligence covers the broad concept that machines should be able to perform what humans consider “intelligent” tasks, machine learning is based on the idea that machines should be able to
In 2007 Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson created a compiled and statically typed language called “Go.” This new language was meant to resolve problems they regularly experienced with languages they were using at Google. Here is a list of the pain points this group sought to address: Slow builds Uncontrolled dependencies Different subsets
Today’s companies routinely leverage IT products to conduct their business. Many of them empower their IT departments to maintain the computing environments as well as the software and services that are used throughout the company. As virtualization and cloud technologies continue to grow, automating the deployment and environment setup has
To show how to use Jenkins for automation testing for rails I've created test rails app and put it on github and created a server on Ubuntu, which I will refer to by the URL https://jenkins.example.com.
As the Ruby on Rails community becomes increasingly mature, additional time is spent optimizing different aspects of the Ruby framework rather than creating a completely new web application. This means performance and memory consumption start to play a significant role in its day-to-day development. So now we have much more instantaneous communication, lots of
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
