Businesses want speed. One of the impacts of digital transformation—and the associated pressure to succeed in an app economy—is the desire to move at speed. Nearly half (48%) of organizations are driven by digital transformation to deploy faster according to our State of Application Services 2019. But it’s not all about deployment. It’s also about […]
The Disposable Development Environment
Wait! Just wait a dadgummed minute! It takes days to build a development environment, and now I am supposed to read an article on a disposable development environment? Yes. It seems like it took an entire sprint to upgrade PHP! Now I am supposed to let them build something so they can trash it? Yes […]
Mixcloud Makeover: Faster Development, More Confidence
“Mixcloud provides audio hosting and distribution for millions of podcasters and DJs,” says Matthew Clayton, CTO & Co-Founder, Mixcloud. Mixcloud’s developers program the site in python (Django) and javascript, and develop their native mobile apps in Java and Objective-C. The Mixcloud team grew its mammoth Django monolith application over a five year period. Mixcloud’s primary […]