Resource Basics Papertrail Keeping track of what's going on in your remotely running stateless servers can be a challenge, but it doesn't have to be a chore.
12 Factor Port Binding Making sure that you have a single, simple, well-understood entry point to your service.
Development The Benefits of Keeping it Simple Everything must be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. But why?
Tech talk Ask for Actions but Deliver on Intent When building a UI, a small change in the way that you think about the user's requests can significantly change the way that you communicate about exceptional conditions.
12 Factor Build, Release, Run Strictly separate build and run stagesWhat problem are we solving?Builds should be repeatable, trivial, and boring. If you can build your application twice in a row on different servers
Development Date Handling Dates are invisible and obvious, until they're not. Luckily a little thought and a few common strategies will keep them as boring as they seem.
12 Factor Backing Services How should you incorporate 3rd party services, and their configurations, into your SaaS app? Are they just another dependency or something more?
Tech talk Don't Forget the V When it comes to MVPs, everyone loves to focus on the M for Minimal. Especially when working in a B2B environment, the Viable portion is all too often neglected.
Resource Basics Mockaroo Good test data helps you see problems that bad test data obscures. Thankfully there's an easy way to get large amounts of it.
12 Factor Codebase How many codebases make up a deployable? How many deployable can you build from one codebase?
Development Don’t Be Afraid to Cheat Its easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees and get so caught up in solving a technical problem that we don't stop to consider how we could take a shortcut and work around it instead.
12 Factor 12 Factor Applications The 12 Factor “manifesto” was written by Adam Wiggins back in 2012 and has become something of a template for building scalable, modern applications in the RESTful era. Find out how it can help you write simple, scalable software for the modern age.
