Mobile app deployment is where many promising ideas start to encounter real-world friction. What worked as a prototype suddenly has to meet the expectations of app store ecosystems, subscription models, and an increasingly complex stack of services. In this third part of the Pennies-AI journey, weโll explore what it actually takes to navigate the maze of mobile deployment and monetization. …
Every long-term project will outlive at least some of the technologies it was originally built with. For example, a project I have been involved with recently ran into this situation. The app is hosted on Heroku, and over the years, the available MongoDB add-ons have changed and dwindled until now, there is only one.
Several migrations between MongoDB add-ons have already happened because of shutdowns. So, it was decided that rather than migrating to the last one still in existence, the project would switch to using PostgreSQL, which is supported directly by the Heroku team.
Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.This happened to me… Twas the night before beta launch… I installed a new node module for a last minute feature and everything went …