Hey everyone!! Last week we embarked on the next phase of AdoMado. In this phase we had planned to be more stable, integrated with more services, better offers with more discount coupons for our loyal users and a better paying ad network. Even though its still fingers crossed _\/, we have gone live with the [...]
Ever since we implemented content filtering mechanisms at AdoMado, our own site was being blocked – and this made me heck curious – why?? Today morning, using Rubular (which is an excellent online regex tool) – I discovered the culprit. And it couldn’t have been more hilarious ) Fixing this… ) PS – a valid [...]
Fatal – you don’t have any automated test cases Recoverable – you have some sorts of test suite in place Best – you are already using unit/integration tests or have TDD/RSpec in place Without wasting words, I’d put you right to the Cucumber and Webrat goodness… Points worth noting… This was ALL the code I [...]
Backups are worth in GOLD when you need them. I simply cannot stress on the fact that if you are running a production web application and you are not backing up your critical data – you are bound to shoot yourself in the foot – sooner or later. Something similar happened to us when we [...]
We had to answer this question yesterday when our EC2 instance stopped responding and was constantly showing 100% CPU load. SSH wasn’t working and neither was apache responding. The CPU was hung at 100% load for a full day. Hence, we decided that a reboot was the only solution. I had a notion (and had [...]