Technology
Use the Data Lifecycle Manager for Your EBS Snapshots
June 27, 2019
Last year, a cool new feature was introduced called Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) which can be used to snapshot your EBS disks. This was previously possible using a Lambda function or cron job, but if you can use the…
Benefits of Separate AWS Accounts for Clients
June 20, 2019
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…
How To Get All The Domain Records For Your Account From Route53
June 4, 2019
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…
Why JavaScript Package Management was Worth the Move
May 31, 2019
Overview Culture Foundry has been working on significant updates to the front end infrastructure of a large scale client website. Outdated core library files had security vulnerabilities that would have always required manual updates in order to be resolved. We…
Trello Butler Tips
May 28, 2019
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…
JSON::ParserError with RailsAdmin
May 21, 2019
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 to Handle Gobs of Photos From an Event
May 8, 2019
How we built a specialized tool to get photos from photographers to a client website as quickly as possible. Continue reading "How to Handle Gobs of Photos From an Event"
3 Commands Your Rails CI Environment Should Run
April 25, 2019
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…
Using CircleCI to Run a Scheduled Hob
March 19, 2019
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…
Using Terraform for Managing Custom Cloud Infrastructure
March 3, 2019
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,…
