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Hosting Provider ‘Upgrade’ Changes Stolen CPU
Recently, a hosting provider’s ‘upgrade’ dramatically changed the stolen CPU time on one of our systems. I investigated and found that our virtual machine’s CPU allocation had ...
Using Vagrant AWS with Capistrano
Vagrant 1.1 was recently released, adding support for virtualization providers other than VirtualBox. Among the providers now available is one for AWS. In switching my Vagrant workflow ...
Pair Programming Is Built on Crucial Conversations
Atomic has added Crucial Conversations to our short list of required reading, meaning new hires will be expected to digest this book within their first weeks on the job. We think it’s ...
The Three Layers of Management
We’ve always made project management an important and inseparable part of our development and design services. When Atomic Object was younger, we would tend to focus on the technical ...
5 Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Software Team
Congrats! You have identified a high-performing, top-notch software development team to design and build your product. (If you are still looking for a team read this.) Want to know ...
Emacs or Vim? Get the Best of Both with Evil
I am an avid Emacs enthusiast in a company full of Vim users. In fact so many people I work with like to use Vim that they even created a company wide Vim config for everyone to use. ...
System Testing a Java Web Service in Jetty
Automated system tests are an invaluable part of ensuring your software product is functioning as intended. On many of our projects, we are lucky enough to work with languages and frameworks ...
Varnish Cache: Optimizing for Mobile Devices
Recently, I wrote about using Varnish Cache to speed up websites. However, not all websites appear identically on all devices. For example, many web applications will deliver different ...
JRuby and vlcj – A Simple Full-Screen Media Player
I recently spent some time writing a simple program to play a movie file full screen on a Linux machine. I wrote the program in JRuby using the vlcj framework, which wraps the VLC media ...
Tooling for an Iterative Infrastructure
Iteration is valuable to more than just application development; design also greatly benefits. But the benefits don’t stop there — infrastructure can gain as well. A big portion ...
