The World of Cloud Functions
Liam Mackey
march 25th, 2019
Cloud functions are a great way to run small programmatic services in the cloud. They are easy to create and use, are very secure, and need little maintenance. They even scale on-demand in a way that is very difficult to achieve using regular servers.
Taking up the Slack with RocketChat
Phil Shirley
november 26th, 2018
Here at Infinity Interactive, we are an entirely remote team. As such, high availability of our communication tools is paramount to our success. Our daily methods of communication include JIRA, email, commit messages, and even, gasp, telephones. While these are effective at doing their job, they are not a replacement for that “human” feel you get when you go into an office and have the ability to have group and individual conversations with your co-workers. For that piece of the puzzle, we use Slack.
Writing Infrastructure as Code
Sean Sparkman (@seansparkman)
december 27th, 2017
When we developed the TPC 2017 mobile application, we wanted to create a repeatable process for delivering white-labeled mobile applications in this space. This new delivery model did not end with the mobile application’s UI and data. The backend had to be configuration-driven and easy to redeploy as well. This way we can spin up a mobile application with a working backend in minutes.