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Most Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails

Colin Soleim — January 12th, 2021

Rehabing older Rails projects often leads to uncovering quite a bit of technical debt. Here's the most common kinds of tech debt you run into and how to fix it.

  • Rails
  • Custom Software Development

Finding The Opportunity in Uncertainty in Custom Software Development

Ian Blyth — January 6th, 2021

'Am I Doing This Right?' It’s a question every software developer, project manager, or business owner asks at least once in their careers. How it’s handled can be the difference between growth and stagnation, success and failure.

  • Custom Software Development

5 Emerging DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021

Jordan Saunders — December 14th, 2020

In terms of work and technology, 2020 was a transformative year for companies and the country alike. Here's the DevOps trends we're tracking for 2021.

  • DevSecOps
  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity

Improving Django View Performance with Async Support

Kyle Johnson — December 1st, 2020

Django 3.1 provides support for asynchronous views, allowing developers to make signifcant performance improvements.

  • Django 3.1
  • Django
  • Python
  • API
  • Performance

6 Things to Do When Inheriting Legacy Rails Apps

Colin Soleim — November 12th, 2020

Becoming the owner of a legacy Rails app can mean inheriting a project bogged down with tech debt, bugs, and sketchy documentation. Here's how to survive it.

  • Full Stack Engineering
  • Rails
  • Project Work
  • Legacy Code
  • Technical Debt

HashiCorp Boundary: A Game Changing Infrastructure Access Solution

Jordan Saunders — October 27th, 2020

For companies like NextLink Labs that operate at the heart of DevOps and Security, Boundary is a game-changing infrastructure security solution.

  • HashiCorps
  • Boundary
  • DevSecOps
  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity

The Critical Role of Cybersecurity in the Digital Transformation

Jordan Saunders — October 8th, 2020

Cybersecurity and privacy should be priorities for every company when pursuing a digital transformation to maintain security and privacy in the modern digital marketplace.

  • DevSecOps
  • Digital Transformation
  • Cybersecurity

Terraform Infrastructure as Code Basics

Michael Scholl — July 6th, 2020

The second of our multipart series featuring Terraform. Here we will focus on some of the basics of using as Terraform to build and manage infrastructure.

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

Efficient Iteration of Big Data in Django

Kyle Johnson — April 10th, 2020

Learn some memory optimization tips for working with Django QuerySets.

  • Django
  • Memory
  • Big Data

Growing and Scaling a SaaS Product or Development team

Jordan Saunders — March 10th, 2020

NextLink Labs CEO Jordan Saunders discusses maturing a software organization through looking at their DevOps and Cybersecurity Maturity Assessments

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity

Introduction to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Jordan Saunders — March 2nd, 2020

The first of our multipart series featuring Terraform. In this article we go over the benefits of infrastructure as code and introduce Terraform

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

DevOps Fuels the Digital Transformation Journey

Jordan Saunders — February 4th, 2020

DevOps is more than a buzzword, it fuels the Digital Transformation journey

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

No Code and Low Code Platforms

Jordan Saunders — January 21st, 2020

NextLink Labs CEO Jordan Saunders discusses No and Low Code Platforms

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity
  • NoCode

Serverless contact form using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and SES.

Daniel Slapelis — December 7th, 2019

Learn how to quickly set up a serverless email contact form for your website.

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

Building a CI/CD pipeline for your website with GitLab.

Daniel Slapelis — November 6th, 2019

In this article we run through how to build and configure a CI/CD pipeline to deploy your business's website using AWS, Terraform & Gitlab

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

Digital Transformation Strategies for Organizational Change

Jordan Saunders — October 16th, 2019

Digital Transformation is just the 2019 version Organizational Change in our increasingly digital world

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity

NextLink Labs Digital Transformation Podcast Series Episode 4

Jordan Saunders — August 19th, 2019

NextLink Labs CEO Jordan Saunders discusses what successful software teams have in common

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity

NextLink Labs Digital Transformation Podcast Series Episode 3

Jordan Saunders — July 8th, 2019

NextLink Labs CEO Jordan Saunders brings on special guest Will Sweeney from Cybersecurity Compliance firm Zaviant to discuss our changing security and privacy landscape.

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Cybersecurity

NextLink Labs Digital Transformation Podcast Series Episode 2

Jordan Saunders — June 2nd, 2019

NextLink Labs CEO Jordan Saunders talks about the basics of DevOps to drive digital transformation across IT projects.

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

NextLink Labs Digital Transformation Podcast Series Episode 1

Jordan Saunders — April 18th, 2019

Jordan Saunders of NextLink Labs kicks off a new TechVibe Radio Podcast Series to explore all things Digital Transformation.

  • Digital Transformation
  • DevOps

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