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By Mike Lyons
Web Developer

With the current rapid advancement and expansion of cloud-based tools, including their availability and usability, the present time is like no other for people with ideas. In the past, it was common for ideas to die before they were ever prototyped due to the costs, both temporal and monetary, of building a prototype and hosting it to get feedback.

The process previously required knowing not only how to code up the idea into a working web app, but also how to administer a server and balance the load on a website when it becomes popular. A developer would have to wear multiple hats, which can spread a one-man team or small partnership thin. (more…)

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Bruz Marzolf
Web Developer

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Current location: Snohomish, Wash.

Hometown: Snohomish, Wash.

How long have you been with CX? 11 months

What is your typical day like? We work in cross-functional teams, which means that it’s not uncommon for me to spend part of my day working on the CX web app, and then switch up and dig into heavy-duty server code. I also typically spend a portion of my day pair programming with other developers here, which has a number of benefits, including helping keep our distributed teams more closely connected. (more…)

By Daniel McDonald
Python Developer

Free open source software is a major component of CX’s secret cloud sauce. We depend on many projects, such as MySQL, Linux/Ubuntu, Python, Ruby/Rails, Scala and Git. People all over the world have generously shared with others their hard work. More than just sharing the finished product, they release the source code and allow anyone to make their own changes to the code and make it do anything they want.

The open source ecosystem is a critical reason why startups such as CX can deliver high-quality products. We get access to industrial-grade software and don’t have to pay any licensing costs. On top of that, we have the ability to look at the code for the software and have the ability and freedom to change it however we like to suit our business needs. (more…)