January 10, 2014: This Week at Engine Yard

Happy 2014! This is looking to be an exciting few months for us, stay tuned!

–Tasha Drew, Product Manager

Engineering Updates

This week I conducted more customer interviews to demonstrate the new user interface work-in-progress and get feedback that can be fed into the UX team and improve and enhance the work we’re doing before we launch it (soon!!).

In addition to the internal teams all working hard on some new features and clusters we are looking forward to releasing, we had a few bumps to the Gentoo stacks, which you can read all about here.

Social Calendar (Come say hi!)

Friday, January 17th - Saturday, January 18th: Community comrades Davey Shafik and Noelle Daley are heading over to Salt Lake City for SkiPHP. Pop on over to our table to say hello and grab a t-shirt.

Friday, January 17th - Saturday, January 18th: We’re thrilled to be hosting Rails Girls at our San Francisco HQ. Join us on Friday for Installfest, followed by workshops and tutorials on Saturday.  Applications are open until the 12th, so be sure to fill one out and share them with interested friends!

Articles of Interest

Ever wanted to gain fame for a discovery at CERN? Check out their latest competition, entries due by January 31st!

Do you ngrok? ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay, and our Director of Engineering, Jason Hansen, is personally really stoked about it! Check out:

• https://ngrok.com/
• https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok
• https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/10/test-your-webhooks-locally-with-ngrok.html