Namshi Engineering

Hello, It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

News from the IT Team:

As you probably know reading our newsletter we are very interested in Docker, the open platform for distributed applications, that’s why Oba, Alex and Lucio will attend the Docker Europe conference in December

Have fun in the cold and grey Amsterdam guys :D

Here is the list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend::

• Mary live-codes a JavaScript game from scratch

• Life of a HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server

• Redis cluster, no longer vaporware

• Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy

• How POODLE Happened

• Container Computing and AWS

• Google Map Tracks Your Every Move. Check Your ‘Location History’ to Verify It

• Developer Preview of Version 3 of AWS SDK for PHP

• HastyScribe, markdown to self-contained HTML pages

• AngularJS 1.3.0

Hello, It’s #TechThursday at #namshi again!

News from the IT Team: Well, not so much today, it was a short week thanks to the cool EID break :)

But what has the team been looking at over the past week? Below you’ll find the usual list of interesting articles we discovered in the past 7 days.

• JavaScript MV* Framework compared

• The Definitive Guide to the JavaScript Generators

• Cyclomatic and NPath complexity explained

• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

Hello, It’s #TechThursday at #namshi again!

News from the IT Team:

Our fella Hallal is back from Symfony Live London and he wrote a nice recap, go and check it out.

But what has the team been looking at over the past week? Below you’ll find the usual list of interesting articles we discovered in the past 7 days.

• Docker Filesystem Persistence With Flocker

• Official Ansible Content on Docker Hub

• What happens when you steal a hackers computer

• Introducing Universal SSL

SymfonyLive London 2014 concluded with top-notch presentations from Symfony and industry gurus. It was an exceptional opportunity being able to attend this conference and meet those people.

Here is my summary about some of the talks I had the chance to attend:

Hello, It’s #TechThursday at #namshi again!

News from the IT Team:

Hallal has already landed in London for Symfony Live conference and he is having a blast.

And we are back with some more proposals to the Confoo conference in Canada: check, and support them by voting for Alex, for Lucio and for Geshan, go team Namshi!

But what has the team been looking at over the past week? Below you’ll find the usual list of interesting articles we discovered in the past 7 days.

• Decoupling packages

• A tiny library for retrying failing operations

• Cooperative multitasking for PHP via co-routines

• The Right Way (In computer science, everything is a trade-off)

At Namshi we run a product that needs to evolve quickly and be ready to change: new features and technologies are integrated every week to be able to keep up to date with the market and the technology around us. That’s how we started using nodejs, Angular, Docker, SPDY and much more…

Do you want to hear more?

Not really hard to believe, NodeJS is a beloved one among the plethora of technologies that we use at Namshi; that’s why we got people like Lucio on board so that we could expand in that direction.

Geshan has decided he can’t stand seeing people struggling with crons anymore, therefore he decided to give it a shot at the 2015 edition of the confoo.

Hello, It’s #TechThursday at #namshi again!

News from the IT Team:

Hallal wrote an interesting post about Shisha: a nodejs library for creating smoke tests in no time.

We submitted some proposals to the Confoo conference in Canada: check, and support them by voting for Hallal and for Cirpo!

But what has the team been looking at over the past week? Below you’ll find the usual list of interesting articles we discovered in the past 7 days.

• Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square

• Push notification click-through rates

• Get your public IP address, uberfast

• The joy of make at jsconfeu

• JavaScript and the Browser: Under the Hood

Here comes Shisha! Yet another NodeJs based application from Namshi! Shisha is a smoke testing module, what is smoke testing? Read about it here. In short, smoke testing is a term coming from Electrical Engineering, where an Electronic chip is simply tested by plugging it into an electric source and observing if smoke comes out! How does shisha relate to this? Well, just give shisha a list or a file of URLs and expected HTTP status code for each URL, and it will assert the expected status codes and show you back a report! It serves as a quick and fast testing platform for your website/APIs. Instead of waiting for a unit or an integration test to be prepared and run, simply set shisha to run on your URLs, it is fast and simple!