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As Jama grew, our Engineering department began to change overnight. Teams were outputting consistent velocities, we had upped our abilities technically on how we measured areas such as performance and quality, we began 8-week planning cycles, we doubled our Engineering team and we had a strong roadmap to follow but for some reason it didn’t […]
On July 8, 2016 the employees, husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends and children of Jama gathered to celebrate another great year at the annual Jama Birthday Party. (Check out the 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th celebrations!) A summer rain pushed us inside, but our soon-to-be-sub-leased 1st floor made the perfect open space for the bouncy house, […]
Chartio is a tool for centralizing, normalizing and visualizing business data. It connects to Salesforce and a variety of databases, and it allows you to upload simple spreadsheets. Its data pipeline has enormous power for transforming the data to get it in just the right form you need. Chartio’s dashboarding capabilities, with layout and drill-down, […]
We use the hashtag #lifeatjama a lot around here. The fact is that we love to celebrate our culture and how we work & play together. It’s not a marketing ploy, it is a reflection of our values and approach, our way of life here at Jama software. A few months ago, the Engineering and […]
Now that all of that left-pad nonsense is behind us, we can get back to focusing on the business of utilizing node modules, or more specifically, how to upgrade our node packages in a safe, verifiable, refactory way (as refactory as Javascript lets us get, anyway). The Problem Recently, I was tasked with bringing our […]
http://jamasoftware-1.wistia.com/medias/s85m28t52u?embedType=async&seo=false&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 The work of defining and developing products for industries that require demonstration of regulatory safety and security compliance – like DO-178, DO-254, or ISO 14508 – can feel like a burden, but it doesn’t have to! Jama is created for companies developing products with multiple safety-critical, complex subsystems requiring engineering expertise across systems, […]
I was recently a panelist at the C3 Connected Mobility PDXchange event. We discussed everything from autonomous cars, to smart monitors for babies, to the ethics of new technology. It was a great opportunity to learn from a wide range of experts within the mobility space, but what really stood out to me is that […]
In being a SaaS company, we are gradually chipping away at our good old monolith, turning pieces into micro-services that can scale horizontally, and that scale efficiently by use of multi-tenancy. A single micro-service can have multiple instances, and each instance serves a multitude of customers. Multi-tenancy has implications on application state, and a common […]
A few weeks ago I had a friend Grace reach out to me and ask me if I could speak to my experience with the DevOps movement from an engineering management perspective. Grace is one of the organizers of the Portland DevOps Groundup meetup group. Their goal is to educate others and discuss topics having […]
This is an open and honest account of the road we took that finally came out as a new deployment model for Jama, based on Docker, which is (spoiler alert) being released around the time of writing as Jama 8.0. It’s a story about the struggles that we had on this long road, but it’s […]