BY Dmitri Saharov
4 min read
Setting up CI at webapp.io
After raising a funding round backed by Y Combinator in 2020, we needed to focus on growing our engineering team. Setting up our own CI process became a top priority; the more of us working on the product and the more customers using it, the greater the costs associated with postponing the task. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
What is an ephemeral environment?
Ephemeral environments are temporary deployments that contain a self-contained version of your application, generally for every feature branch. ...
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BY Lyn Chen
4 min read
B2C FinTech: how BxBlue supercharged their Ruby on Rails DevOps
BxBlue is a B2C FinTech company. It's the leading marketplace for personal borrowers in Brazil. ...
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BY Lyn Chen
1 min read
webapp.io is part of the first-ever remote Y-Combinator batch
Twice a year, the Silicon Valley based firm funds category-defining ventures and provides them world-class mentorship. Notable alumni include Dropbox, PagerDuty, AirBnB, and Stripe, to name a few. ...
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BY Lyn Chen
2 min read
#RemoteLife: What It's Like To Be A Cloud Engineer at Loopio
This is a post from our #RemoteLife series, where the LayerCI team interviews tech employees and founders in various roles. This is a resource to share productivity tips and challenges of their roles during this adjustment period. ...
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BY Lyn Chen
2 min read
#RemoteLife: What it's like to be a Software Engineer at a 500 Startups company
This is a post from our #RemoteLife series, where the webapp.io team interviews tech employees and founders in various roles. This is a resource to share productivity tips and challenges of their roles during this adjustment period. This interview features Claudia Guerreiro, a full-stack software developer from Bliinx who ...
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BY Lyn Chen
2 min read
#RemoteLife: What it's like to be a freelance UX designer and developer
This is a post from our #RemoteLife series, where the LayerCI team interviews tech employees and founders in various roles. This is a resource to share productivity tips and challenges of their roles during this adjustment period. ...
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BY Lyn Chen
1 min read
Former CTO of npm joins the webapp.io family
Ahmad Nassri, the former CTO of npm (recently acquired by GitHub/Microsoft) and founder of the Tech Masters Community has joined as a technical advisor to LayerCI, after learning more about their mission. ...
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BY Lyn Chen
3 min read
How to get buy-in from your manager for DevOps tools
So you have a DevOps tool you love - how do you convince your manager that it's a good investment? Having been an employee in your shoes previously, read on to learn how you can champion DevOps tools in your organization if you're not the final decision maker. ...
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2 min read
Lessons from startups to technical PM at Coinbase (video) ft. Chetan Rane
In this chat, hear from Chetan Rane on his journey from Stanford CS to founding a tech company Omni (acq. by Coinbase) to technical product management at Coinbase. ...
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