The Trello Tech Stack
A nice overview of the building blocks the folks at FogCreek used to build Trello.
37Signals: Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with WebKit
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this short sprint we targeted mobile WebKit browsers—especially the default browsers on iOS and Android—because of their widespread use and excellent support for HTML5 and CSS3.
Here are a few things we’ve learned along the way:
Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in…
Running Rails Local Development with Nginx, Postgres, and Passenger with Homebrew
Nice article describing how to install and configure nginx using homebrew
