16
Oct
2018
Since the release of Docker in 2013 and Kubernetes in 2015, containers have become the defacto standard for developing, deploying and hosting applications. Here at AWeber, we work with containers every day, but do we understand how they work? Before containers, we used virtual machines … <Read More>
14
Jun
2018
Have you ever received an email that appeared to come from your bank, colleague, or company you've done business with, only to discover that it was spam? Even to the most discerning eyes, some of these fraudulent emails can look nearly identical to their genuine … <Read More>
23
Feb
2018
The Twelve-Factor App, Agile Processes, Dockerization, MVC, RESTful APIs, Micro Services, lambda functions … the list of the latest technology goes on and on. The benefits of these technologies and methodologies are highly touted, and rightfully so. Any of them might be appropriate for your … <Read More>
31
Aug
2017
One of the best ways to get new email subscribers is with a sign up form. Forms give you the opportunity to ask every person who visits your website to subscribe to your email list. And this not only allows you to grow your list, … <Read More>
01
May
2017
About a week into my shiny new project management position at AWeber, I was basically told that the role itself was met with much disdain, water cooler dissension and a communal question of “We’re an agile shop. Why do we need a project manager?” It’s … <Read More>
21
Apr
2017
Pilots don’t want to crash. And neither do technical teams. Okay. Granted, developing software isn’t the same as piloting a plane. If you mess up a software release, you’ll get some angry customers and may lose some in the process, but... usually no one dies. … <Read More>
06
Apr
2017
With Swift approaching its third anniversary of being announced to the world, it's no longer the immature adolescent that can be passed by for the old reliable language, Objective-C. Instead, it's now something that can't be ignored if you’re an iOS engineer. After all, it's the … <Read More>
30
Mar
2017
I recently heard an interview with Jim Jarmusch in which he talked about how he considers himself an amateur filmmaker, even though he’s been making movies since the early 1980s. He explained that he looks back to the original Latin meaning of the word amateur, … <Read More>
07
Mar
2017
People are the most valuable asset of a company. And yet, attrition in the tech community is around 28 percent. Early in my career as I was starting out as a coder, a leader in my organization casually mentioned to me that there are three … <Read More>
23
Jan
2017
As a follow up to Grace’s AWesome post sharing her experience with round table reviews from the perspective of a team member, I wanted to provide an additional post covering my perspective as a team lead. Round table reviews neatly support five of my core values as … <Read More>
