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- Last Updated: April 30, 2024
- Chris Castle
Austen Ito is a software engineer at leading online fashion brand Bonobos, based in New York. Read our Bonobos customer story for more information about how Heroku has helped their business.
What do you have running on Heroku?
We’re running just about everything on Heroku, including our Bonobos.com website, cross-app messaging services, an API for our ERP, as well as some internal tools. The only pieces that are not on Heroku are the Data Science and ERP components. We’re also using Desk.com for customer service queuing.
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- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Matthew Creager
We recently sat down for a chat with Bill Curtis, a co-founder and the CTO of Sweet Tooth (Now Smile.io ), a points and rewards app for online stores worldwide.
What has been your greatest challenge?
We’re serving way more data today than we ever have, so scaling is mission-critical. In the past, we’ve struggled with traffic spikes. For example, there are seasonal spikes, like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. There are also spikes from merchant activity, such as load testing stores or importing a large number of orders.
I recently tweeted…
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Matthew Creager
In 2013, Rafael Ördög put poker and code together, the result: Lean Poker , a competitive coding event that teaches continuous deployment and lean startup methodologies. Rafael is based in Budapest, Hungary.
Lean Poker is a coding workshop that is designed to teach people how to practice continuous deployment and lean startup methodologies. Companies can sponsor a free public event or hold an internal, team-building event for their own employees.
The basic starting code is really simple and teams can use the language of their choice. The challenge is not to understand an existing…
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- Last Updated: September 25, 2009
- Oren Teich
We periodically like to highlight some of the great applications people are building on Heroku. This week, a new web site and iPhone app for shutterbugs launched , and it’s getting great press and feedback around the web. Chase Jarvis , a professional photographer, has been singing the praises of the iPhone camera as creative outlet. As he points out, the best camera is the one you have with you. To back that claim up, he’s launched a new project combining an iPhone application and community website.
When I saw that this was running on Heroku, I knew I had…
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