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Custom Software Development

A Django Upgrade Guide for Major and Minor Releases

The Django project has major updates every eight months and minor updates as needed. It's a good idea to keep your project up to date with the latest version or…

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Custom Software Development

Why Companies of All Sizes Should Consider Automated Software Testing

Picture this: It’s Thursday afternoon and you just got an email from your manager of development letting you know the team has completed the new features you’ve…

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Custom Software Development

Our RuboCop Configuration for Successful Rails Projects

After over 8 years in development, the Ruby linting gem RuboCop has finally released version 1.0 and with it a host of new features, style configurations, and m…

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Press Release

NextLink Labs Hires Veteran NSA Defense Professional to Lead Cybersecurity Practice

PRESS RELEASE Pittsburgh DevOps and Software Consultancy Bolsters Cybersecurity Practice, Adds Chief Information Security Officer.

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DevOps

Building a Kubernetes CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Helm

Everyone loves GitLab CI and Kubernetes.

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Custom Software Development

React 16 vs. React 17

On October 20, 2020, Facebook released the newest version of React, React 17.

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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: 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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