Karl BauminwithcoDairy farm to withco’s table: From founding VTS to transforming small business commercialI’ve worked in tech for over twenty years, developing software and leading engineering teams. By nature, my work is pretty future facing…Mar 8, 2022Mar 8, 2022
Karl BauminBuilding VTSServing Assets while Rolling Your DeploysAt VTS we use rolling deployments as part of Heroku private spaces. Here is a thorough yet simple definition of a Rolling Deployment from…Oct 23, 2017Oct 23, 2017
Karl BauminBuilding VTSKnow Your Rails ActionMailer Deliveries with LogentriesIt’s easy to lose track of all the places you are sending emails to your users. At VTS we create simple log message for every email we send…Aug 29, 2017Aug 29, 2017
Karl BauminBuilding VTSMonitor and Debug Bottlenecks in SidekiqAt VTS we use Sidekiq to do much of our work in the background. Occasionally one of our queues gets too large and we need to quickly look…Jul 18, 2017Jul 18, 2017
Karl BauminBuilding VTSThe “Who” of OKR’sThe most important part of an OKR is making sure the right people are behind it. The best goals that really move the needle are impossible…Oct 11, 2016Oct 11, 2016
Karl BauminBuilding VTSRails ActiveRecord includes or join?Take this rails/squeel code:May 10, 20161May 10, 20161
Karl BauminBuilding VTSRoute53 SSL Naked Domain RedirectIn a previous post, I wrote about the “shortcut” we took in configuring our naked domain to point to our Heroku app within Amazon Route 53…Nov 2, 20151Nov 2, 20151
Karl BauminBuilding VTSAdventures in Upgrading to Heroku Cedar-14Heroku has deprecated their old Cedar-10 stack and the time came for us to ugrade to Cedar-14. The problem was that when we tried it out…Sep 10, 2015Sep 10, 2015
Karl BauminBuilding VTSOur Brand New Shiny DomainWe did it! We were finally able to nab the vts.com domain. In this post we are going to focus on some of the technical steps we took when…Jan 13, 2015Jan 13, 2015
Karl BauminBuilding VTSDynamic Heroku Unicorn Worker CountEvery now and then some of our web dynos were suffering from what looked like the noisy neighbor problem. Symptoms included overall…Dec 12, 2014Dec 12, 2014