Backstage

Tips and tricks about the various things that go on behind the scenes at a UK software development company.

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Using SIP3 for call traffic analysis

Posted in March 2022 on the Dial 9 blog

Within Dial 9, we utilise a number of tools for call monitoring and analysis. One particular service we use, especially when it comes to customer support, is SIP3.

Porting ‑ explained

Posted in February 2022 on the Dial 9 blog

If you're looking at changing your phone provider, you'll most likely want to transfer your existing number across to the new provider so that your customers can still reach you...

DeployHQ's Journey to the iOS App Store

Posted in December 2018 on the DeployHQ blog

When we decided to make native smartphone applications for DeployHQ we assumed that getting the iOS version approved on the store would be a simple affair. Unfortunately, this was not...

Building Commit Graphs

Posted in April 2017 on the Codebase blog

Git and Mercurial both come packaged with handy utilities to visualise the commits in your repository as a graph. We include this functionality in the Codebase interface as well. A...

Data Protection at Codebase

Posted in February 2017 on the Codebase blog

In light of recent events, we wanted to write a quick post to outline the measures we take to ensure that the data you entrust to us is safe and how we monitor the techniques used to ensure they will be ready for use when we need them.

Wiring up Deploy for Websockets (part 1)

Posted in June 2016 on the DeployHQ blog

In the last few weeks we've introduced websockets into Deploy to improve our deployments. In the next couple of posts we'll delve into the how and why of this development.

Managing your threads with Queue

Posted in April 2015 on the Codebase blog

One of my favourite utilities in the Ruby standard library is the Queue class. Queue provides you with a delightfully simple way to synchronise communication between threads. Typically, Queue is...