Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend
As a developer that likes to make things for fun, I've really fallen out of love with Heroku. A lot of this can be summarised by saying "it's not super-cheap to run hundreds of…
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What I have learned deploying small-scale, high-value IoT devices
Everyone focuses on large scale consumer Internet of Things products such as Nest, but it turns our there is also a huge amount of scope for small scale & high value B2B IoT. This is…
Tips when writing an API in Ruby on Rails
At work we have settled into a pattern of splitting our frontend and backend into standalone JS applications at the front and Ruby on Rails at the back. This means I've been writing a lot…
Deploying a Node.js web application with Capistrano
Capistrano is a Ruby-based server automaton and deployment tool that is primarily designed to deploy Ruby (on Rails) applications, but also works really well for deploying Node.js applications because of its sensible defaults. I'm…
Tiny Upstart script to keep a NodeJS process alive
I'm not sure what it is about startup scripts, but people seem intent on complicating them. In my experience the simplest way to keep a non-daemonizing NodeJS app running (on an Ubuntu server) is to…