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A few weeks ago I've open sourced issues-helper. It allows you to easily interact with issues on GitHub and GitLab, from the command line. gli o –assignee clementd –label improvement "Degauss the frobulator fluxfield" Let's see why and how it's done.

We've been quietly rolling out support for hooks during deployments. This may come as a surprise if you listen to our ramblings about deployment processes, as we've always pushed for self-contained, zero-adherence builds. Don't worry, we haven't changed our minds. Let's see why and how doing things outside of the build system can make sense.

Since its first release, we've been quietly improving our CLI tool, clever-tools. Today, we've released version 0.7.0, with better support for node 7 and many improvements.

Nowadays, we know that null is to be avoided. It's been dubbed the billion dollar mistake by its own creator, and the dreaded NullPointerException everyone knows about. Yet, when it comes to getting rid of nulls, nobody agrees.

At Clever Cloud, we've started using microservices before it was cool™. Today we're excited to launch service dependencies, to simplify microservices management.

As big users of PostgreSQL, we had the opportunity of re-thinking the idioms common in the world of relational DBs. Today, I'll talk about why we stopped using serial integers for our primary keys, and why we're now extensively using Universally Unique IDs (or UUIDs) almost everywhere. TL;DR Use UUIDs as primary keys. They can […]

Here at Clever Cloud, we're enthusiastic users of functional programming. It helps us a lot when it comes to have clean and maintainable code. That's why we were delighted to fly to Bologna for the LambdaCon, to meet the Italian FP community as well as some twitter friends.