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TL;DR: I’ve deployed Discourse on Kubernetes (K8s) for my company’s internal discussion platform. Because I couldn’t find a simple tutorial, I documented my steps to help other developers do it too. Continue reading “How to set up an internal team forum in half a day using Discourse”
What do you do if you have a site you want to update once in a while? It’s not a blog, so you don’t want WordPress. It’s also not worth building a customized backend. In developer-speak, we would think about a remote data hosting to store the data for semi-dynamic websites or applications.
So we made a free open source tool APITable for that, which converts tables to JSON API.
Continue reading “A spreadsheet-based API for building MVPs.”
How do you encourage your development team to build more projects without being bogged down with deployment? As a company that builds mobile and web products, it’s a priority that we create an environment where our team members focus on building rather than deploying.
But even if we have a deployment platform, we’ll still need someone to manage the administration. As engineers, anything we have to repeat, we want to automate.
What would be a secure way to give our developers access to our deployment platform?
Over the years, we’ve been building loads of nicely-crafted iOS applications for our clients.
To keep everyone work closely, we send daily builds to our QA Team, beta users, clients, other team members. However, building an iOS is still painful for Project Manager — It involves compiling, uploading the app to TestFlight or HockeyApp,
setting up Crittercism for collecting crash reports (Those who have experience, should know that you have to upload dSym files for symbolic debug messages), notify everyone on Slack, etc.
Much better if we can automate all these with each Pull Request.
Continue reading “Continuously Delivering iOS Beta Builds Automated with Travis CI”