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Best Practices for Application Deployment

on October 15, 2020 | By Engine Yard
In this age of technology, web applications are everywhere in our lives. There are many hurdles in the application deployment process, and many steps to get a web app to the production environment and onto the end user's device. Software deployment is an essential step...
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Containers vs Virtual Machines Differences, Pros, & Cons

on October 9, 2020 | By Engine Yard
Before the rise of containerization, virtual machines were the way to go if you needed to isolate environments within a physical infrastructure.
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Docker Vs Kubernetes Explained

on October 5, 2020 | By Engine Yard
If you’re aiming for a microservices-based architecture, you might have heard about Docker and Kubernetes. Docker and Kubernetes are tools you use in the lifecycle of a containerized application.
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What is Platform as a Service (PaaS) Explained

What is Platform as a Service (PaaS) Explained

on October 1, 2020 | By Engine Yard
If you’re developing a web application, you might have heard of the three primary models of cloud computing: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. IaaS gets you an infrastructure, PaaS provides a development environment to go with it, and SaaS is cloud applications for end users.
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How NoOps Improves Development Productivity and Operational Agility

on September 1, 2020 | By Engine Yard
A NoOps platform can be a benefit to application development teams and address challenges around improving productivity and operational agility.   
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How to Build Your Own Gem in Ruby

on August 26, 2020 | By PJ Hagerty
As the name implies, the Ruby programming language thrives thanks to the presence of gems. Like the plugins that came before them, gems are mini-pieces of code used to perform specific duties without interfering with or becoming a direct part of our code. The code...
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Why Ruby is Great for Startups

on August 25, 2020 | By PJ Hagerty
There’s always that critical moment for creative types, getting an idea to move from inside your head to the outside world, capturing it while it’s still fresh. It’s the same for app developers, taking a brilliant idea from vaporware to seismic game changer, from...
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Announcing The New Engine Yard Kontainers

on July 15, 2020 | By Engine Yard
At Engine Yard we are on a continuous journey to provide you with tools to minimize your operational burden, moving you towards friction free NoOps application deployments.  Today we are pleased to share an exciting new capability which was one of the top asks from our...
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Resources for Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

on April 7, 2020 | By Engine Yard
Ruby on Rails is now firmly in the mainstream. A steady stream of people have good reasons to want to use Rails but don’t know where to begin. The resource list below is a solid starting point. It includes tutorials, books, blogs, podcasts and many other educational...
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RubyConf Round Up

on November 27, 2018 | By PJ Hagerty
The City: Los Angeles, California
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