Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: How We Helped a Pet Supply Business Get Back on Track
Pet360 was one of our oldest clients, going back to 2014, and working with them was our first real foray into retainer-based billing. At the… Read more!
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Robert Brodie
r.brodie@sumoheavy.comBob is SUMO Heavy’s Co-founder and CTO. Since SUMO Heavy’s start in 2010, Bob has continued to be committed to providing innovative, complex, and meaningful solutions to a wide range of clients. From high-level, architectural planning to corporate communication, you can rely on Bob to help you build something that will truly impress users and merchants alike.
Improve Your Team’s Efficiency Through Continuous Improvement
Continuous improvement is a vital aspect of any efficient organization. Creating a truly great product requires a team to repeat what works well, and improve… Read more!
Observability: An Overview
What is observability? Observability is a set of DevOps practices that augment monitoring and lead to the ability to perform more frequent deployments of higher… Read more!
Handling a Payment Gateway Outage
NOTE: This post is not sponsored and SUMO Heavy is not affiliated with Spreedly in any way. We feel that they provide an amazing service… Read more!
Reduce Failures and Keep Your Site Running with Circuit Breakers
What are circuit breakers? Circuit breakers are a design pattern that allows an application to avoid catastrophic failure in the event that a dependency is… Read more!
Feature Flags for Development: An Overview
From Wikipedia:A feature toggle or ‘Feature Flag’ is a technique in software development that attempts to provide an alternative to maintaining multiple branches in source… Read more!
‘Agile metrics’ are the key to your team’s continuous improvement
Continuous improvement is a vital aspect of an efficient organization. To create a truly great product, a team must repeat what works well and improve what doesn’t — and that same… Read more!
Lessons in Infrastructure Automation
At SUMO Heavy, we work with clients that have managed infrastructure and those who manage their own infrastructure. We’ve been lucky enough to work with… Read more!
Security is Not a Feature
In the modern era where online privacy is limited, security is no joke. While software vulnerabilities are nothing new, the ubiquity of connected apps such… Read more!
Associating Value to Your Work to Better Prioritize Your Roadmap
Overview Imagine you have a well-established working relationship with a client, and they ask you to work on an important new project. This project is… Read more!