BitOps is an open source Docker image created by Bitovi that bundles popular deployment tools with the understanding of what to do with an operations repository. This coupling makes it easier than ever to set up the automated deployment of cloud infrastructure. However, BitOps requires an operations repository to work its magic.

This is part 2 of a BitOps tutorial series:

• Part 1: Introducing BitOps

Defining infrastructure as code repositories to handle complex systems with automated pipelines is difficult to manage at scale. BitOps is a solution to describe your infrastructure and the artifacts deployed onto that infrastructure for multiple environments in a single place called an Operations Repo. It was created and open-sourced by Bitovi.

This is part 1 of a BitOps tutorial series:

• Part 2: BitOps, Yo!
  

Scully is still a new and emerging technology, allowing developers to convert their Angular apps to use JAMstack methodology. Learning how to improve Angular application performance by pre-rendering pages with Scully can be hard if you don't understand how Scully works or how to debug Scully errors (or lack of errors).  

When considering how to improve Angular performance, there are many things we can borrow from the JAMstack approach. One of these, caching API calls, can be a real performance booster AND save money by limiting server requests to fetch redundant information.

On May 29th, 2020 an online Angular Event is being held featuring prominent women in the Angular community, including Bitovian Jennifer Wadella. Jennifer will be presenting a talk about improving Angular application performance with Scully, a recently released optimization tool.  

There are a number of ways to improve Angular application performance, but one sure-fire way to see page load times improve immediately is to move toward JAMstack architecture, and using Scully is a great way to do this.

In the 2020 economy of competing web applications and SaaS products, an application's performance can be the difference between a customer gained and a customer lost. Angular is a fantastic framework for creating scalable web applications.  However, it is just as susceptible to performance issues as any other technology if the development team isn't experienced in Angular best practices, optimization, and performance consideration.

While there are many factors that impact Angular application performance,  consider one common result of poor performance; page load time. The longer a web application takes to load, the more likely a user is to leave the site without taking an action that may lead to a sale. 

Google doesn’t disclose its ranking algorithm or list a concrete goal for performance, so a company should ensure their application performs better than their competitors’  in order to be successful.

Conversion Impact

Due to recent events, lots of people are now "Work From Home (WFH)". If you have never worked from home for long periods of time, it can feel a little weird at first. You might find yourself easily distracted by the TV, streaming services, chores, or your bed might be calling your name. Working from home can be a great experience - start with little changes to get comfortable. I want to share some of the things that have helped me in being a full-time remote employee for Bitovi for the past four years.