When working on our application in Helpling, at some point in the past we migrated from Vagrant to Docker to take advantage of the containerized approach and make updating parts …
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Recently when investigating our application metrics we’ve noticed that one of our API endpoints is surprisingly and unexplainably slow. At first, we brushed it off as this particular endpoint returns …
As developers we often have to manage complexity in code or architecture but what happens when complexity creeps in on us in our favorite safe and comfortable space, development environment? …
One day a sharp eye of our CTO noticed an interesting metric in our APM tool. He’s found a query that searches through translations table with a big impact on the app …
TL; TR Part of our stack runs on Heroku and uses the Heroku provisioned Postgresql services.The tier 0 and 2 from Heroku Postgres databases have a credit system for Disk …
At Helpling we deploy the same code to several different Heroku applications. When using the traditional deploy system in Heroku, they take the code, download dependencies, generate assets and pack …