GoDaddy acquired our previous hosting company, so we switched hosting companies and built a custom EC2 server on AWS to host our websites. The hosting company has been giving us poor service for quite some time, but getting acquired by GoDaddy was the last straw....
Happy new year, and just like that, we are in 2022 and nearly two years through the pandemic. One of the best decisions several years ago was operating as a distributed team. While most of us are in Canada, we wanted our team members to work...
Consultants, NGOs, and entrepreneurs who fundraise to launch a Platform as Service (PAAS) assume that once they invest all their funds in building something new and launching their product, they can sit back and enjoy their idea's realization. Except that now they have adopted a...
With the COVID-19 pandemic happening in the world, everyone's lives have been affected. In rmd Studio, we are making some changes to make sure that we can continue delivering our services to our valued customers. Three years ago, we decided to restructure our team so everyone could work...
Happy 2020, this time of the year, we usually post a greeting message and a picture of the Vancouver Polar Bear swim, but this year we had work spilling over from 2019 and new work coming from the new year. In our business, we never...
A few organizations in Vancouver have been consulting with us before launching their platforms, so we thought it was a good time that we wrote a blog about devising price plans for a SAAS platform. Delivering applications such as SAAS or software as a service gained...
The intended audience of this article is non-technical directors and managers who've been wondering why reliable online services and platforms use different types of databases. Applications fetch and store data in databases. Even your website's content management is very likely using a database to store content...
In our team we find the term Consumerization of IT to be uncomfortable mainly because we have seen so many precarious practices in the consumer apps and services that the idea of introducing that to the IT world terrifies us. There is an interesting history behind...
The purpose of a product is to solve a specific problem for a particular demographic of users. A word processor is for typing letters, papers, and reports. A spreadsheet is for making spreadsheets and charts. Sometimes users decide to use their tools differently, for example,...
Some major tech companies are failing at a primary security measure. They aren't encrypting sensitive data and storing them as plain text. That is concerning! Yesterday the news came out that Freedom Mobile, the mobile telecommunication company that is currently owned by Shaw had a server...
Photo by Kaique Rocha from Pexels Ever wonder how your favorite apps and online services update their features without any downtime? It's all happening thanks to the miracle of DevOps and Release Engineering. There was a time that web designers would launch a website by opening an FTP or SSH...
Holy ships, it's a new year already! Happy 2019! Last year passed so quickly for us while we were laser-focused on building and deploying projects for our clients. For those of you who've been working and sharing ideas with us, thank you for yet another...