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October 12, 2022

UML Deployment Diagrams Versus Entity-Relationship Diagrams

DevOps, Portfolio, Technical Overview
8 min read

There are several ways we can represent and document systems and processes. Looking at a system in different ways increases the understanding of that system. This…

July 20, 2022

GraphQL or REST? An Honest Comparison

DevOps, Portfolio, Technical Overview
8 min read

Whether you’re developing an internal tool, a content management system (CMS) integration or an e-commerce plugin, you’ll often find yourself making a choice. Should you use…

June 22, 2022

How EnergySmart Uses CMS Hub and HubSpot CRM for Smart Reporting

Portfolio, Technical Overview, Web
7 min read

Savvy companies are aware of how effective CRM and CMS technologies can be for their bottom line. EnergySmart discovered that the intersection of these two technologies…

March 23, 2022

How Insurance Companies Use Mapping APIs to Reward Good Driving Habits

Portfolio, Technical Overview, Web
12 min read

Are you a safe driver? If you’re like most people, you’ll answer “yes” to that question. But can you prove it? And if you think you’re…

March 23, 2022

How to Architect a Fitness Tracker App with TomTom Maps

AI, Portfolio, Technical Overview
8 min read

You probably use — or are at least familiar with — fitness tracking apps like Strava and RunKeeper. But what would it take to build one?…

October 5, 2021

Monitoring NGINX Performance with New Relic

Portfolio, Technical Overview, Web
8 min read

Over 15 years ago, NGINX started its life as an open source web server designed to be fast, stable, and reliable. Today it’s one of the world’s fastest…

October 5, 2021

Fitness Mapping with the Strava API and TomTom Maps

Portfolio, Technical Overview, Web
15 min read

The TomTom location APIs and Maps SDKs make it easy to incorporate location and routing information using a sophisticated map, where we can layer more information…

May 27, 2021

How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Architecture

DevOps, Portfolio, Technical Overview
16 min read

When building distributed, scalable cloud-native apps containing dozens or even hundreds of microservices, you need reliable monitoring and alerting. If you’re monitoring cloud-native apps in 2021,…

March 30, 2021

Getting started with Kubernetes: how to set up your first cluster

DevOps, Portfolio, Technical Overview
12 min read

In this article, we’ll take a different approach and show you how to set up a real-world, production-ready Kubernetes cluster using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon…

March 4, 2021

Do I Really Need Kubernetes?

Containers, Portfolio, Technical Overview
10 min read

In this article, we will try to look beyond the hype and help you answer the question: do I actually need Kubernetes?…