The final Grateful Dead “Fare Thee Well” reunion shows at Soldier Field in Chicago are just around the corner! However, the music never stops — Chicago will be filled with pre- and post-parties galore throughout the eventful July 4th weekend. Here’s our complete guide to partying before and after…

Today I have taken some time out to review some electronic dance music films and there is really some amazing stuff out there. Here are ten documentaries that you should take the time to watch in no specific order (instead of watching Family Guy on Netflix). 1) The Drop: The EDM Culture Explosion I…

In some recent blog posts, we’ve explained why we believe it’s crucial to adopt a four-tier application architecture in which applications are developed and deployed as sets of microservices . It’s becoming increasingly clear that if you keep using development processes and application architectures…

Here’s part 2 of the animated video describing our engineering culture. Check out part 1 first if you haven’t already seen it! This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, so the video is somewhere between “How Things Are Today” and “How We Want Things To Be”. Here’s the whole drawing:…

a definition of this new architectural term The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. While there is no precise definition of this architectural style,…