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Company milestones, engineering write-ups, and lessons from a decade of shipping software. Older entries reflect the era they were written in. The mission has not changed: less infrastructure, more capability.
How to Use AWS S3 to host your static websites
Cloud technologies are fast becoming the mainstay of what we use to develop custom solutions for consumers. Amazon Web Services(AWS) has become the dominant player and go cloud service for developers.
Deploying a Nodejs App to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic beanstalk is a managed service which means AWS automatically handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, application health monito…
Scholarship for Jasmine Amoako-Agyei to launch Countdown
Jasmine Amoako-Agyei is a social entrepreneur and is launching her new startup, Countdown. She just completed her 3rd year at Arizona State University, pursuing a degree in Marketing with double…
What is Docker? And Why Docker?
“Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.” – Wikipedia. To begin, let’s examine each of the…
Build a Slackbot with Slack’s Bolt APIs
Slack is a messaging platform used by numerous developer teams around the world for their day-to-day instant messaging interactions. Slack is a very powerful productivity tool that makes our lives…
Using Bull as a Priority Job Handler in Node Js
Let’s build a Node.js API that uses Bull to handle priority Jobs There are a wide variety of priority job queues for Node js. “A Queue is a linear structure which follows a particular order in which…
How to Use Custom code snippets in WordPress
Code Snippets is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add and manage custom code snippets on your website. One of the best features of this plugin is
How to use WordPress as a Headless CMS with React
React, the frontend framework created at Facebook in 2013, with over 165k GitHub stars is now one of the most loved Frontend frameworks used by JavaScript developers. React is a powerful framework…
How to insert a table into a Database in WordPress
In your plugins folder within your WordPress directory, create a new file. We’ll call ours dummy_plugin.php. In this file, add the following block of code.
How to Create Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
A WordPress taxonomy is a way to organize groups of posts and custom post types. This gives you the flexibility to group posts, pages, etc. for your site needs. Fortunately, WordPress comes with some…
How to Upload Files to S3 using AWS JavaScript SDK and WordPress
AWS has a ton of amazing services to help in the software development process. From services that help you cache static assets like CloudFront, to services that scale based on the traffic to your…
Getting Started with Local by Flywheel
Developers always need a local environment to write, run, and test their code before deployment. At Aeeiee, one of the technologies we use is WordPress, but we need to be able to develop WordPress…
The Everyday Life at Our Company
2020 has been a year! There has been enough significant events in this year to take up at least 5 years. With the COVID-19 global pandemic hitting businesses
We are hiring again! | 3 Positions Open
Aeeiee is hiring again! One of our goals for 2020 is to get back on the iOS App Development train. We’ve seen a tremendous amount of success with Dress Measurement, with over 26,000…
We are hiring Software Engineers
Things are moving fast here at Aeeiee. We’ve just closed on a new office in the heart of downtown Tempe, walking distance from Arizona State University. We’re hoping the downtown location and…
Scalable Cloud Architecture
Aeeiee is proud to announce our first real-world implementation of our auto-scaling cloud hosting environment for our client, Iridium Communications Inc. Iridium is replacing its satellite…
Mashable is right, web design is dead
A little over a year ago, Mashable wrote an article entitled Web Design is Dead. A website like Mashable has incentive to write controversial content with a standout title, and you can tell it worked…