Tracking millions of child-safety devices across the country? You’re going to need uncompromising reliability and performance. You’re going to need smart devs, smooth dev environments and scalable servers.
Top-Shelf Developers
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Magical Elves at Cloud9 IDE
How I love thee Cloud9, let me count the ways.
Um…since when did serious web-based IDE development leave the “coder’s fantasy” genre? Since Cloud9 launched player!
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The people behind Cloud9 are so amazingly magical that they may in fact be elves. We are able to import, develop, test and deploy Node.js powered apps; all whilst using only a web browser. Whaaaaa?!
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As if developing from the browser wasn’t enough, Cloud9 decided to add more elven pixie dust to their offering. They built a web-based command line interface.
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Database Wizards at MongoHQ
To store and manage the data that comes with tracking millions of moving devices I would have in the past prepared with a 10-day silent meditation
This would clear my mind before the familiar onslaught of db admin questions that need to be answered:
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When and how to scale vertically and horizontally?
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When and how to implement shared data across different server instances?
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What about monitoring and tuning the db for performance?
What if there were a team of database wizards who spent their every waking moment managing db servers? And what if they made a service that allowed us to take advantage of that instantly?
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To put icing on the cake, database instances at MongoHQ can be scaled vertically and horizontally; by people who do this stuff all the time. Nice.
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Server Ninjas at Dotcloud
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What about our web servers? I can already envision the large teeming waves of concurrent web requests. Fortunately dotcloud hosting includes:
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24/7 monitoring of server application performance
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On demand horizontal and vertical scaling: more node instances, more memory. Yeaah buddy!
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Command line interface deployment tools (plays well with Cloud9)
Solid.
SMS Experts at Twilio
We have spent almost 7 years in the SMS messaging space. When the need to text large groups came up, we knew what to do.
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Twilio handles massive amounts of SMS communication every day and has been doing so for years. Having worked with Twilio on previous projects, we know they’re a great fit for this one.
Venture Backed Services
Smart money tends to congregate. We like that all the services we use are also backed by experienced venture capital organizations.
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