by Anne Ruskamp | Dec 15, 2021 | Software Engineering
After being out of the loop for the last couple of years on advances in unit testing for component-based web frameworks, I have been pleasantly surprised at the experience and value available in unit testing my front-end code. In this blog post, I am going to walk... by Anne Ruskamp | Oct 20, 2015 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
On Beehive, we have been taking advantage of Amazon’s Auto Scaling functionality to control the number of instances we are running behind load balancers. The other day we came across a use-case where we needed to set up a new load balancer in order to host a separate... by Anne Ruskamp | Jul 7, 2015 | Software Engineering
The Beehive team (on which I work), as well as all the Nebraska Global companies, have made layered processes and techniques part of our day-to-day operations to ensure the quality of the software we are creating. It is very easy to make a statement like “by relying... by Anne Ruskamp | May 27, 2015 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Engineering
Engineers want to see their code used. Time spent on a release is time not spent working on other products or new features. Building a system that allows for automating releases can be a great way for dynamic teams to save time and focus on their passions. On the... by Anne Ruskamp | Oct 17, 2013 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
One of the great features of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) – at least in my opinion – is the ability to establish sticky sessions (or session affinity). These allow clients to connect to specific instances in the load-balancer for the life of a session. In...