Today is an Amazing Day for Eric Branner and the Fons Team!
January 5, 2023As an investor, I'm thrilled to announce that Fons, a startup that provides small to medium businesses with an easy scheduling and billing platform, i...
Keyv Now with Etcd
February 23, 2022We’re excited to announce that keyv now fully supports etcd. This is an exciting development for anyone who uses etcd in their current tech stack. Wha...
The Cost of High Availability
June 23, 202199.99% availability, also known as four nines availability, requires a system to only have 52.60 minutes of downtime per year, which corresponds to 4....
Google Cloud Scheduler Create Job Quick Reference
June 15, 2021Google Cloud has a cloud based CRON job system which is highly scalable and resilient so you do not have to build it yourself. Here is a quick guide o...
Contrib: Enabling Direct to Fan for Charities
June 12, 2021Contrib is a digital fundraising platform that empowers influencers to engage with their fans, raise money for important charities, and make a direct ...
Writr now powered by Ecto!!!
May 4, 2021Writr is a simple-to-use blogging system that until now only supported Handlebars. After its integration with Ecto, we now support all the popular tem...
Introducing Ecto - A modern template consolidation javascript library for EJS, Handlebars, Markdown, Pug, and more!
March 17, 2021What is Ecto? Template engines have long been used to simplify code and to use static template files in an application. With template engines, you can...
Keep Your Hands Dirty
March 10, 2019Throughout my career, I have seen many different management styles. Some were more effective than others but, as a founder, there is one management st...
Introducing Docula!
March 7, 2019No trick, just a treat! One of the big things that I love is the idea of making documentation (when needed) more of a community effort. In the past I ...
Using GitHub Projects
January 24, 2019The Fons team decided to use GitHub Projects to organize and prioritize its work — and I just wanted to share some of our experiences with you. To giv...
Internet Privacy for Humans!
May 3, 2018With the continued uproar surrounding online privacy, you would assume there’d be an easy way to control your privacy settings. But there’s not. It se...
Docula: Persistent Links and Styles!
March 7, 2017In our last update, we simplified the modules down to two (docula-ui, and docula-core) and also added In-Memory data stores as the default. Now with t...
Module Simplification and Customization in Docula!
February 8, 2017Let the Simplification Begin! We have moved from three modules to now only two. docula-core: The core module with all the logic. (what makes docula ti...
Time Management for Founders
January 27, 2017Time management and task prioritization are ongoing struggles for many of the founders and entrepreneurs I know. Sure, there are many great articles a...
Roadmaps and the Tooth Fairy
January 18, 2017If you still believe in the tooth fairy, please stop reading now. I once thought like you: for a product team, the path to enlightenment is to generat...
Page Titles, Path Remix, API Hotness, and Your Own Logo. Oh My!
December 1, 2016Big updates to Docula over the last couple weeks and it is about time we got it all written down for everybody. Lets get started… Make your API docume...
Github edit links in docs, full text searching and a easier configuration.
November 9, 2016Thanks so much for the great response and feedback on Docula! Here are some more fixes and also some enhancements. Now you can add some code to easily...
PC 2 MAC Simple Advice to Make it Easier
October 24, 2016I often find myself coaching PC users on how to use their brand new spanking Mac. It’s a phenomenon that’s happening more and more as these shiny meta...
So, You Want to be a Founder…
October 24, 2016That is amazing and I congratulate you. I congratulate your drive to create something from nothing, nurture it like a child and work harder than you c...
Polish Your Company
February 10, 2016Transforming your incubated idea into a full-blown business is no easy task. Many of the founders I advise and work with need help tackling this might...
Mythical Evaluations and Reality
February 5, 2016The current marketplace is in a state of flux. Some people claim there’s a bubble, others reject this statement. Whatever the real state of today’s ma...
The Silent Company Killer
February 2, 2016There is a growing epidemic in the enterprise. It has existed for many years and many companies work hard to cure this sickness. But, in the end, this...
Moving On from CenturyLink…
December 1, 2015Today is my last day at CenturyLink. It has been an absolute honor to work for and contribute to such an amazing company in the midst of a major trans...
Enabling Remote Workers and Keeping Them Engaged
October 3, 2015Harvard Business Review wrote a great article on “Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged.” At Tier 3 we believe in this and have always maint...
Five Ways PaaS will Rock the Enterprise
October 3, 2015Platform-as-a-Service is one of the hottest new technologies to hit the market in recent years. Already it has seen significant adoption from startups...
Four Golden Rules of High Availability
October 3, 2015For over the past decade I have worked in the enterprise building large, high-availability systems. As CTO of a cloud company, one thing that still su...
Is Judgement the Number One Trait for a Great Developer?
October 3, 2015Great blog post from Tammer Saleh on the number one trait for a developer: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/the-number-one-trait-of-a-great-develop...
It’s the Polish that Makes Something Special
October 3, 2015When you look at applications today it is very easy to tell which ones have the “polish” — and because of that, are exceptional. Many times it is just...
My Greatest Successes Have All Come From Small Failures
October 3, 2015My father-in-law recently sent me an article from the NY Times (http://nyti.ms/nLBqp4) asking the question “What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?....
Once You Click Send the Internet Owns Your Data
October 3, 2015With graduation happening for many people right now I often wonder what they have learned in High School and College. We often see the daily emails fo...
Performance is a Feature… Even for IT
October 3, 2015Recently Jeff Atwood over at coding horror wrote a great blog about how performance is a feature. I not only completely agree with him but I also want...
Scalable Development… If You Need Scale Choose Wisely.
October 3, 2015I see many different applications at Tier 3 from our customers and how they plan on scaling it in the cloud. This usually becomes a debate about what ...
What You Think You Need vs. What You Really Need
October 3, 2015Every business wants to keep costs down and save money, right? Choosing a dynamic environment gives you a way to do just that by ensuring you only buy...
Get Your Kids to Start Coding
October 2, 2015Coding is cool. Getting your kids to code is even cooler and will help them long term in our technology driven world. Out of the blue my eight year ol...
Moving to Three Languages
October 2, 2015I’ve made the move to just three languages: JavaScript/Node, .NET / C#, and Go. In an age where new coding languages pop up more often than a Windows ...
Picking a Co-Founder is Hard
October 2, 2015I had a great opportunity at this year’s Interop Las Vegas IT Conference and Expo to talk with some amazing entrepreneurs at Work In Progress. I focus...
Work / Life Balance for Founders
September 21, 2015I read an article recently about a high powered CEO who quit his job in light of a letter from his daughter that highlighted 22 milestones he had miss...
