Using terraform to manage cloud infrastructure is a good idea, even if all you have is one S3 bucket. We use terraform to manage our cloud infrastructure. Terraform is an open source, cloud agnostic declarative tool that lets you create,…
How do you format your ruby code across developers and projects? I confess, I'm in love with standardrb. I've used other formatting tools like the hound and rubocop, but standardrb is great because it takes all the choice away from…
Who answers the page at 3am? When you provide hosting, as Culture Foundry does, you need to provide on call support. Below, I'll outline the components of Culture Foundry's on call system. The first, most important piece is to define…
How to run commands when starting up a Vagrant box Some of us at Culture Foundry run vagrant instances for development. This virtual machine lets you manage different environments or work in a unix environment if that is your wish.…
What does a day in the life of a developer look like at a 100% remote digital agency like Culture Foundry? Here is what a typical day at Culture Foundry may look like (if you are a developer): After breakfast,…
What are Progressive Web Apps, and why would you want to build one? I just read Progressive Web Apps, by Jason Grigsby. If you want an overflight of progressive web apps (PWAs), including a definition, what their capabilities are, and…
Setting up regular one to ones opens important channels of communication. At Culture Foundry, we are 100% remote. Yes, we have offices, but they are entirely optional. This means that our employees have a lot of freedom (see the benefits…
What is a Delivery Showcase and why does it matter? One of our core values is delivery. From that post: We are scored on delivery. No excuses. No politics. No points for perfect problems. Clients care about business value delivered,…
How can you allow a trusted third party to access a subset of your Route 53 hosted zones? DNS is fundamental to the internet and to the website and web applications that Culture Foundry builds. We prefer to use Route…
What does "unlimited vacation" actually mean? "Employees are trusted." This is the kind of statement that no company would contradict: the phrase "employees are not trusted" emblazoned on the office wall makes employee retention difficult. At Culture Foundry we live…