Production database lifecycle
Our production databases provide you with a fault-tolerant platform for storing all your application data. In this post, I just wanted to outline exactly how these databases run and what...
Backstage
Tips and tricks about the various things that go on behind the scenes at a UK software development company.
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Identifying Crashed LXC Containers
This is a slightly technical post which I just wanted to put out there to assist anyone who may run into the problem. If you're not using Linux Containers, you...
Upgrading to production databases
Starting off with a Viaduct Hobby-level database is a great way to get your application up and running. However, when you enter production we strongly recommend upgrading your MySQL or...
The Built‑in Viaduct PHP Server
Viaduct has always provided a built-in PHP server which can be used for hosting any PHP application on the platform. Until now, you just added a web process and used...
Ruby 2.1.x Platform Changes
Due to Ruby's relatively new versioning policy, we will now only be maintaining one version of Ruby per minor release (for example, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 etc...). When a new tiny...
Levelling‑up production databases
It's time to level-up production databases. Today we're announcing a new Tiny package which will allow you to deploy production-ready Mongo, Redis & memcache instances for just £7/month!
Hello Viaduct WebPush
Viaduct WebPush is new service from Viaduct providing you with the tools you need to implement real-time messaging in your applications. Using web sockets, Viaduct WebPush includes the server-side infrastructure...
The Viaduct CLI Toolkit
It's all go at Viaduct HQ at the moment. As developers ourselves, we love efficiency. As we spend 90% of our day using our terminal, we thought it would be...
Nobody is reading your instructions
For almost four years we've had these instructions on Codebase for users setting up a notebook in their project.
Building Qoffee in 48‑hours for Rails Rumble
For the 2014 Edition of the Rails Rumble competition, we built Qoffee - an app to help avoid wasting time during meetings. Qoffee came 3rd out of over 300 teams.
Introducing Viaduct
Hello and welcome to the inaugural post on the Viaduct blog! In this initial post I wanted to quickly explain our plans and what we're doing about making them a...
Reminiscing: Desklamp
Back in 2006 when aTech was just a fledgling web design company, I started work on a CRM-type application to help us manage clients, jobs & quotes.