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, Software Patterns
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...
by Anne Ruskamp | Dec 21, 2011 | Entrepreneurship
As a recent graduate from the university, I can empathize with the many seniors who are starting to think about what the next chapter of their life is going to look like. A key component of this is the decision about where to apply and ultimately decide to work. There...
