22 Oct 2015
By Stefan Majoor
4 min. read
In our organization we frequently need to execute some scripts that are either time consuming, or very heavy on the server. Most of the times these scripts needn’t necessarily be executed synchronously. Therefore we use a queuing system to execute those scripts when the time is better. For a long time we used an old open source PHP queuing system, named fuel-queue. This was good for the basic stuff we did with it, however this system had some major drawbacks.
29 May 2015
By Burhan Zainuddin
1 min. read
After spending many years coding and building software products from scratch, you know that stuff breaks (for example because of bugs or server crashes). Software is intangible, so it doesn’t break like glass does. But even though it’s intangible, software can become old and even the bits can rot. It needs maintenance and care for it to run for years on end.
A notable exception is writing apps, and shipping the tablets as well.
