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Naming a New SaaS, or “Five Methods of Waterboarding”
I feel like every IT company founder must come across this quote while their fingers splash amongst the tears dropping onto their keyboard as they type into Google “how to name a business” “There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton While that’s true for computer […]
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Load Testing Everyone Can Understand – By Pierre
I’m going to break down the importance of load testing for any beginners, and I’ll move on to the grittier stuff in my next post. Would you build something without testing to see if it could handle it’s intended maximum capacity? Would you finish putting together a chair without checking to see if it could […]
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Continuous Testing: “you broke it, you own it”
In my last post on the “you build it, you run it” principles behind DevOps I explained how “packing your own parachute” can give more of an incentive for developers to care about what happens when their handiwork reach production if they have to deal with the fallout. But this is not enough to guarantee sufficient quality in […]
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What is DevOps? “You build it, you run it”
DevOps, as an industry term, is relatively fresh, having only entered onto most developers’ radars in the last few years. But exactly what it means is sometimes rather vague or twisted to fit the corporate mould of one product or another. As the below Google Trends shows, DevOps has seen a steady increase in popularity in recent years, […]
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TestZoo goes Alpha
We’re in the final stages of building TestZoo and like all good troops we need an Alpha to help keep things in line. The animals are in their homes and the zookeepers are giving the place a final once over – just to double check a lion hasn’t snuck in with the tigers. If you […]
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How TestZoo Got Its Spots, a.k.a. “Why the stupid name?”
Our concept for TestZoo when it was conceived was simple, if ambitious: “all your tests, available all the time, executable at any scale“ Deciding on the first release of the service focussed on the greatest value out of the box we could provide for SaaS and web applications. Problems that we ourselves were facing. So again […]
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Enter Behemoth: what AWS re:Invent means to pure-plays
Top 10 AWS re:Invent announcements and how they might impact pure-plays As a start-up founder there is always that slightly sick moment when you uncover a potential competitor in your domain or niche, and the more specialised your business is the more susceptible you are to this. Even more so when that competitor is a global […]
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2015 Year of the Unicorns – Bubble or Beginnings?
One of the dominant themes of 2015 so far has been the rise of start-up unicorns; those with a valuation over USD $1 billion, all 103 of them as of June 2015. (Update: now 141 unicorns, four short months later!) But is this a temporary bubble due to over-hyped capital markets or is it the beginning of a fundamental […]