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The Lifecycle of a Request

Most Rails developers should be pretty familiar with this work flow: open up a controller file in your editor, write some Ruby code inside an action method, visit that URL from the browser and the code you just wrote comes alive. But have you thought about how any of this works? How did typing a URL into your browser's address bar turn into a method call on your controllers? Who actually calls your methods?

When In Doubt, Add More Spans: A Tale of Tracing and Testing In Production

Recently, Toshok was telling a story about the kind of thing he talks about a lot—improving the performance of some endpoint or page or other. Obviously, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve the experience of our users, but what caught my attention this time was that what he was describing sounded like a new kind of testing in production—so I asked him to go into a bit more detail.

BigPanda Autonomous Operations Platform: Now an Award Winner!

It’s not just our customers who choose our technology time and again. BigaPanda is also recognised by the industry as an innovator whose cutting edge solutions provide Enterprise IT with both value and innovation. We’ve been named one of the 10 finalists for The MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase, and one of the 30 Best Companies of 2019 by CIO Bulletin.

Enterprise use cases for AWS Lambda

Last year we covered the top enterprise serverless use cases for AWS Lambda. To refresh our memory, according to the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), most commonly AWS Lambda is used for REST APIs, multimedia/image processing, CRON jobs, and stream processing. Today I’d like to cover some more complex ways some of our enterprise customers use Lambdas.