Ben Coe

CODE Author

Ben Coe, co-founder of Attachments.me, is in his element writing scalable cloud-based infrastructure. Before starting his own company, he worked as an engineer at FreshBooks in Toronto. A rock-climber, an amateur musician, and a bagel aficionado, Ben can often be found roaming the streets of San Francisco.

Contact Information:

Email: ben@attachments.me
Phone: 415-314-7891

Articles Authored

Asynchronous, Test-Driven Development, with JavaScript and Mocha

Last updated: Friday, May 20, 2022

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - July/August

Although I’m now a huge advocate of test-driven-development, I was not an immediate convert to the school of thought. I understood the necessity of unit testing:
Hosted Solutions

Last updated: Monday, December 27, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - March/April

Ben Coe gives us tips on planning an engineering project when you’re starting with a blank slate. He starts with hosting options, addresses scaling, and looks at tools like Heroku, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), and the Twelve-Factor App Manifesto.
Node.js Best Practices

Last updated: Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - July/August

You might have heard about Node.js and always wanted to try it. With Ben’s guidance, you can get a simple Node.js app up and running, and learn about some other useful tools as you go.
Smartassets.io: Amazon Web Services by Example

Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - January/February

My first experience with AWS was building a prototype for a website called Attachments.me. My friend Jesse Miller and I built the site over several weekends, and hosted it on a single EC2 instance. Two years, dozens of EC2 instances, and hundreds of thousands of users later, we’re still on AWS.
To MongoDB, or Not to MongoDB

Last updated: Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - September/October

When I started my company Attachments.me three years ago, NoSQL was a hot topic. Advocates preached impressive benefits: