We have a number of clients that have infrastructure we manage on AWS. Sometimes it is servers and databases. Sometimes it is a cloudfront distribution and s3 buckets. Sometimes it is something totally different. We've moved from having everything intermixed…
Sometimes you just want to get all the records for all the domains you have hosted at Route 53. You might want to look through them for some setting or anomaly. But clicking around the AWS console is tedious. The…
We are heavy users of Trello. We are heavy automators of Trello. Previously, we had custom software which did automation of Trello tasks. Things like sorting and archiving cards, copying cards between boards and auto assignment of cards. When we…
I ran into a JSON parsing issue when using RailsAdmin 1.4.2. I was trying to search for an entity to associate it with another entity, but nothing was being returned. I looked at the request/response, and it was returning 500.…
How we built a specialized tool to get photos from photographers to a client website as quickly as possible.
Automation + Ruby on Rails + gems == a better application We love continuous integration builds here at Culture Foundry (we even use it for projects that don’t have tests). It works well with rails applications, because rails encourages a…
How we use our CI infrastructure to automate a database migration and run it every night. We have one project where loading and transforming data is crucial. We're migrating from one data model to a quite different one. There are…
When should you call an MVP done? So I recently was published on the Go Code Colorado blog. If you don't know what Go Code Colorado is, it is an annual contest to see what teams can build with Colorado…
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,…