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Custom Software Development

Most Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails

The majority of the Rails custom software development work we do here at NextLink Labs deals with rehabilitating older projects that are overwhelmed with techni…

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Custom Software Development

Finding The Opportunity in Uncertainty in Custom Software Development

Custom software development is a lot of things, but you’d be hard pressed to find a way to describe it as “easy”.

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Cybersecurity

5 Emerging DevOps Trends to Watch in 2021

It goes without saying that 2020 was a unique year in our history.

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Custom Software Development

Improving Django View Performance with Async Support

Django 3.1 was recently released and along with it came support for asynchronous views. To anyone that uses Django and works with lots of data from lots of diff…

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hashicorp boundary logo graphic Cybersecurity

HashiCorp Boundary: A Game Changing Infrastructure Access Solution

Last week, HashiCorp announced the release of Boundary, a game-changing infrastructure access solution aimed at helping developers, operators, and security team…

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Custom Software Development

6 Things to Do When Inheriting Legacy Rails Apps

Introduction Rails version 1.0 is approaching its 15 year anniversary, and there’s reason to celebrate the framework's progress.

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Cybersecurity

The Critical Role of Cybersecurity in the Digital Transformation

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

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DevOps

Terraform Infrastructure as Code Basics

Overview During the course of this article we will cover some basic concepts in the Terraform application to create AWS resources. This article assumes you have…

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Custom Software Development

Efficient Iteration of Big Data in Django

Running out of memory is not fun. Unfortunately, when working with larger datasets its bound to happen at some point. For example, I tried to run a Django manag…

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Cybersecurity

Growing and Scaling a SaaS Product or Development team

NextLink Labs CEO Jordan Saunders discusses how to mature a SaaS product, other Software Project, or IT organization.

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DevOps

DevOps Fuels the Digital Transformation Journey

DevOps has become an umbrella term that combines software development and information technology operations. Often viewed as a cultural movement, DevOps encoura…

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DevOps

Introduction to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Introduction to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code One of the most important tools we use here at NextLink Labs is Hashicorp Terraform. This article is the fi…

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