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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 […]
ACT-W, a conference to advance the careers of technical women convened in Portland for the fourth year on April 23 & 24. The conference scheduled included workshops (Women in Tech: the Past, Present & Future; Easy Web Applications with React & Redux; Level Up as a Leader), panel discussions and a job fair with mock […]
When I was a student, I took a class on the analysis of natural disasters. It was paired with an experiential component that took us on an alternative spring break trip to New Orleans. My classmates and I learned about the effect of a natural disaster on the city’s inhabitants. We spent four days volunteering at […]
On a chance bus ride down MLK to our Jama office a few months ago I happened to share a seat with a colleague in our Engineering Department, Bryant Syme. He had only been working for Jama for a few months and to be perfectly honest I hadn’t spoken to him much yet. We talked […]
Typically, Product companies share two business goals: Build the right product for their customers and get them to market quickly. I was honored to share the (virtual) stage with analyst Frank Gillett from Forrester Research to talk about some of the massive opportunities for connected devices to solve real-world problems. I mentioned being inspired by […]
Jama is committed to Portland and believes in the importance of giving back to the communities where we live, work and play. A year ago Jama launched the Paid Volunteer Time Program, granting employees 16 hours per year to use volunteering at the organizations of their choice. Since the launch of the program in March 2015, […]
We are excited to announce our December 2015 hosted Jama release, making collaboration even easier for product teams with new ways to share visual information. We’ve also added new tools to ensure your Jama system is operating at optimal performance for your growing teams. Better visualization tools to enhance collaboration When you’re having asynchronous conversations […]
Today we’re announcing some exciting new additions to the Jama Software leadership team. Chris Cook of New Relic joins the board of directors. Ian Miller, most recently President of Workday Asia Pacific, has been named the Jama VP of Worldwide Sales. Cook served as President and Chief Operating Officer New Relic, a SaaS web application […]