Jonny Harris is a WordPress core contributor and committer based in the UK and a member of the WordPress Performance Initiative. This group ...
https://platform.sh/blog/wordpress-performance-optimization-with-blackfire
In parts one and two of this series, we covered how to limit deployments to Platform.sh when a tag is pushed or created. Focusing ...
https://platform.sh/blog/guide-to-limit-deployments-to-platformsh-only-with-tags-part-three
In part one of this series, we covered how you could limit deployments to Platform.sh only when a tag is pushed/created, focusing primarily ...
https://platform.sh/blog/guide-to-limit-deployments-to-platformsh-only-with-tags-part-two
I had the pleasure of returning to DrupalCamp FL (DCFL) again this year and even now in its sixteenth year, DCFL 2024 was as lively and...
Throughout the years, many users have asked us if it’s possible to only deploy to Platform.sh when a tag is pushed using a source code ...
https://platform.sh/blog/guide-to-limit-deployments-to-platformsh-only-with-tags-part-one
Managing web applications from the ground up can be a daunting task. One application alone can quickly grow in complexity, let alone the mul...
https://platform.sh/blog/standardizing-web-application-stack-and-how-to-do-it
As individuals become increasingly conscious of their personal data and how it is used, compliance with data protection regulations is a top...
https://platform.sh/blog/proudly-announcing-our-participation-in-the-data-privacy-framework
Have you ever found yourself dreaming of an easier way to collaborate on projects? Tired of individually managing users across multiple proj...
The new Platform.sh Swiss public region empowers organizations to meet sustainability, data localization, and compliance requirements in the...
https://platform.sh/blog/zurich-new-low-carbon-powered-public-region
That’s a wrap, people! Our final event of the year has come to an end, and what a way to close out 2023. We’ve rounded up our best bits from...
Old ads can be startling—cigarette ads used to boast their health-giving properties, sugar-laden candy was once advertised as a dietary aid,...
https://platform.sh/blog/cannot-wait-for-sbmos-to-be-demanded-by-regulation
Just like the feeling you get when you hear the first notes of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" signaling the arrival of the...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-8-3-now-available-on-platform-sh
The cyberthreat landscape continues to change along with technological advancements. Industry thought leaders expect to see changes in softw...
https://platform.sh/blog/software-company-security-priorities-are-changing
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal mandate across the EU, requires enhanced protection for EU personal data transferred ...
https://platform.sh/blog/whats-the-deal-with-eu-headquartered-iaas-providers
Having your websites and apps run smoothly at all times is crucial to the success of your brand, and having something go wrong can be catast...
What’s important when building a new business? A good idea is vital, obviously, plus the right people, hard work, experienced investors, and...
https://platform.sh/blog/building-a-trust-centric-culture-for-success
Companies used to have an easier time complying with regulations, but compliance has really never been a straightforward endeavor. In the pa...
https://platform.sh/blog/adopt-a-gdpr-everywhere-strategy-with-platformsh
We are excited to announce that Platform.sh now offers the latest releases of Elasticsearch to all of our customers going forward! Take full...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-partners-with-elasticsearch-to-supercharge-our-applications
October is Cybersecurity Awareness month. So, we’ve asked Diogo Sousa, Platform.sh Security team manager to share how his team contributes t...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-platformsh-stays-ahead-of-emerging-cybersecurity-threats
What is a PaaS?A platform as a service, or PaaS, is one of the three major cloud computing service models. In our opinion, it’s the on...
How App Hosting Works: A Brief OverviewDeveloping apps takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. It can feel like a marathon that doesn’t even...
You’re probably all very familiar with the URLs we currently generate automatically for your environments on Platform.sh by now. And while t...
https://platform.sh/blog/custom-domains-now-available-on-preview-environments
Today Bun 1.0 is being announced—one of our friends in the ‘.sh’ tld—so it’s an absolute pleasure to share a small celebration and...
With Platform.sh, every Git branch maps to a preview environment which is an exact and isolated copy of your live application—including all ...
https://platform.sh/blog/help-reduce-resource-consumption-put-your-preview-environments-on-pause
In today’s software development panorama, there's a philosophy which really stands out and continues to influence the thought processes of n...
https://platform.sh/blog/monetize-free-and-open-source-software
Our Elite and Enterprise customers currently using the Fastly CDN can now strengthen the protection of their web applications against a vari...
https://platform.sh/blog/nextgen-fastly-web-application-firewall
Have you ever had to set up and/or maintain a local development environment using Docker that mirrors your production environment as much as...
https://platform.sh/blog/powerup-your-local-development-with-ddev
The time has come for Drupal 7 which will officially sunset on January 25, 2025. But what does that mean for Drupal 7 users? One o...
Building applications and managing infrastructure at the same time is a complex task. It involves managing multiple software and hardware co...
In today's rapidly changing technology landscape, businesses need to adapt and evolve to stay competitive. One trend that has gained momentu...
As you probably already know, Blackfire and Platform.sh joined forces back in June 2021. And since then our collective teams have been...
https://platform.sh/blog/blackfire-is-now-even-closer-to-home
Platform.sh remains committed to carbon intensity transparencyOne of the value propositions of Platform.sh is to offer greener hosting....
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-is-now-using-annual-carbon-intensities-from-electricity-maps
Last summer, we updated our privacy policy to include event accommodations. As our company grows, we realized that to provide the ...
https://platform.sh/blog/an-update-to-our-events-privacy-policy
That’s right - thanks to a Freexian subscription, end of life versions of PHP are getting extended support!The lifespan of a PHP versionA PH...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-lts-security-fixes-have-arrived
If your organization is managing multiple websites, you’ll understand the challenges involved in keeping everything updated and running smoo...
The Software as a Service (SaaS) model operates by treating each customer as a tenant of the application. To use the SaaS application, each ...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-as-a-saas-development-and-management-platform
Are you currently considering refactoring, replatforming, or rearchitecting an application? Well congratulations because that most likely me...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-truth-behind-application-modernization
Our aim, like always, is to help users thrive. We want them to receive real value from all that we deliver through our various features. And...
https://platform.sh/blog/now-you-can-forward-logs-to-external-endpoints-from-within-the-console
Keeping track of your project-related activities can be an overwhelming task. With so many projects, tickets, users, and deployments happeni...
https://platform.sh/blog/greater-organization-insights-through-weekly-activity-reports-emails
Just the other day I was working on a side project. As we sometimes tend to do, I began on the production branch thinking to myself, “I’ll m...
https://platform.sh/blog/iterate-faster-with-improved-cancelable-activities
Securely managing the people who have access and permissions to each of your applications can get very confusing, very fast for administrato...
https://platform.sh/blog/centralized-user-management-has-arrived-at-platformsh
Keeping your website or app up-to-date with the latest tools, frameworks, and security compliance is important for maintaining a successful ...
https://platform.sh/blog/five-considerations-for-choosing-a-modern-paas
Understanding your systems’ status is essential for ensuring the reliability and stability of your applications and services.Without full aw...
https://platform.sh/blog/infrastructure-metrics-expanded-to-longer-time-frames
We’re excited to announce even more new upgrades for our API servers - let’s get into the details! Update SSH permissions instantly, no...
https://platform.sh/blog/its-time-for-version--all-new-upgrades-for-our-api-server
As a developer, it’s important to stay up-to-date with the latest programming languages and updates. But this is no easy task with the fast-...
We are all about providing the best web application deployment experience on the market. Working to ensure that our product is delivering th...
https://platform.sh/blog/introducing-our-new-api-and-metrics-servers-upgrades
Today is the official release of PHP 8.2.And you can already use it on all your Platform.sh projects, with a single code change in your .pla...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-8-2-lays-new-ground-on-platformsh
Ransomware is an ever-evolving type of malicious software (a.k.a malware) in which an attacker encrypts the files on a victim’s device, rend...
https://platform.sh/blog/dont-be-held-to-ransom-security-awareness-with-platformsh
The final 4 months of the year are an incredibly busy time for retailers, as holiday sales are in full swing from early October and continue...
https://platform.sh/blog/are-your-websites-ready-to-handle-traffic-peaks-this-holiday-season
We are delighted to announce the general availability of Dedicated Generation 3 - the latest evolution of our Dedicated offering.We rewrote ...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-ultimate-generation-of-our-dedicated-offering-is-here
The developer experience just got so much better with the latest Platform.sh CLI release. Designed and engineered to help developers manage ...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-platformsh-cli-is-ready-to-golang
You asked and we delivered! The days of configuring cron jobs to take backups for each of your environments are over.Now, for every project,...
https://platform.sh/blog/new-feature-announcement-introducing-automated-backups
One of the key attributes of DevOps and SRE engineers is their ability to meticulously observe and monitor all of their applications. A task...
https://platform.sh/blog/introducing-a-more-complete-logs-forwarding-experience
To make the developer experience as smooth as possible, we are simplifying the onboarding process.How? By making the Platform.sh configurati...
https://platform.sh/blog/introducing-a-leaner-and-more-flexible-config-and-support-for-custom-hosts
Celeste van der Watt has always felt different from everybody else. As a child, she was told to be more kind to her classmates—to smile...
Today, we are excited to announce that Platform.sh now offers the latest version of MongoDB to our Enterprise and Elite customers. Clients c...
As a Platform.sh customer, your protection is paramount and every single one of your projects is secure. For Enterprise and Elite customer p...
https://platform.sh/blog/increased-security-for-enterprise-and-elite
Tackling challenges: How a Platform.sh intern navigated his way through programming, Paris, and the pandemicIt was another chilly day in lat...
For years, Chromatic managed virtual servers on behalf of our clients. As tools like Platform.sh matured, our team realized we were spending...
https://platform.sh/blog/one-codebase-many-projects-drupal-multisite-fleet-management
As a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that hosts web applications on the cloud, we take every measure necessary to protect our users' personal d...
https://platform.sh/blog/weve-made-changes-to-our-dpa-to-clarify-platformsh-role-under-the-gdpr
To ensure the best possible experience at future Platform.sh conferences and events, we may ask you, with your explicit consent, to voluntar...
https://platform.sh/blog/were-updating-our-privacy-policy-to-include-event-accommodations
At Platform.sh, we are committed to making your development and deployment experience as smooth and seamless as possible.As part of this eff...
https://platform.sh/blog/new-improvement-global-settings-in-console
If you’ve worked with us before, you know we take security seriously. We take measures necessary to safeguard your sensitive and personally ...
https://platform.sh/blog/announcing-hipaa-compliance-for-platformsh
**UPDATE August 1, 2022:** The new jitter value has been rolled out to all existing Grid projects, and will be the default to all new Grid ...
**UPDATE June, 2023:** The following improvements are available to all existing Grid projects, and is the default to all new Grid projects:...
https://platform.sh/blog/upcoming-improvements-deployment-caching-crons
If you’ve ever experienced downtime during sudden traffic spikes, then have no fear: Auto-scaling is here. That’s right. As of today, all...
Today is a big moment in the Platform.sh story and a bright day to celebrate in our seven-year history. This latest round of fundrai...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-announces-140-million-series-d-funding
Recent events of the pandemic have facilitated a rapid implementation of remote working tools, causing an increase in ransomware attacks – ...
https://platform.sh/blog/pandemic-caused-spike-in-cybercrime
## Why organizations should be looking for sustainable tech solutions Climate change: it’s one of the most pressing challenges of our time...
We may not always know what is happening behind the scenes when we add a dependency to our projects. We expect this process to “just work” ...
https://platform.sh/blog/blackfires-unique-way-of-delivering-python-binaries
The path to success in software development can be long and challenging. It requires a lot of skills and dedication as it’s not just about ...
https://platform.sh/blog/infrastructure-metrics-for-all-professional-projects
## Why are we bringing more transparency to the provider and the carbon footprint? In our Green initiative effort, Platform.sh is exposing...
https://platform.sh/blog/greener-hosting-starts-with-transparency
**The commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study uncovers the value that Platform.sh brings to businesses deploying websites and w...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform-sh-drives-meaningful-cost-savings
When Platform.sh acquired Blackfire.io, as announced in our previous blog post, the two teams began reviewing and merging our policies and ...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform-sh-privacy-policy-now-include-blackfire
As an organization owner, you can grant your key contributors permission to manage all your projects, billing information, or users within ...
https://platform.sh/blog/split-projects-and-users-across-organizations
Do you manage critical applications that require your team’s attention and effort, to remain secure, compliant, or simply up to date? Are ...
We’re excited to announce that Platform.sh now offers (https://opensearch.org) as a service available and included on all plans...
**UPDATE 6 April 2022:** There are times where we have to revisit our plan, and today is one of those times. Last week, we released a fix ...
https://platform.sh/blog/were-changing-the-way-development-urls-are-generated
As of yesterday, the team behind Go has released a new version 1.18 with some significant changes to the language. Those of you who want to...
Feature announcement: You can now cancel Platform.sh activities through the CLI and management console. Last year we (/blog/intr...
https://platform.sh/blog/reel-in-activities-announcing-cancellable-activities-and-crons
(/blog/bedrock-modern-wordpress-development/) my colleague, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-carlson-1529365a/), WordPress...
https://platform.sh/blog/modern-wordpress-development-workflow
We’ve updated our (/privacy-policy) to version 6.0, which now addresses UTMs and updated Law Enforcement Requests guideline...
On June 4, 2021, the EU Commission released two new contract templates, both labeled Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). [The first templa...
On Tuesday 25 January 2022, Let's Encrypt was notified of a (https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2022-01-25-issue-with-tl...
https://platform.sh/blog/letsencrypt-mis-issued-certificates
## End-to-End Web Platform Provider Extends Strategic Collaboration with Microsoft to Offer More Choice and Increased Support for Local Mar...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-announces-microsoft-azure-support-australian-market
Forrester Research interviewed digital leaders at enterprise organizations and found that, on average, they were [maintaining 268 customer-...
## Navigating container orchestration for websites and applications Today’s organizations face major challenges in effectively deploying a...
Last week, we took a look at how (/blog/share-your-failures-fix-them-faster/) - specifically the link made available ...
https://platform.sh/blog/measuring-the-success-of-a-deployment-with-githubactions
In our (/blog/share-your-failures-fix-them-faster/), we announced that activities on Platform.sh were now shareable....
https://platform.sh/blog/share-your-activities-with-robots-surfacing-activities-with-github-actions
Just days after its official release, we are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of PHP 8.1 for all Grid plans projects. The ne...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-81-lays-new-ground-at-platformsh
**** This is the final update, and we at Platform.sh would not let you go into your end of year h...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-protects-from-apache-log4j
When you’re working with a Continuous Delivery workflow, you rely on building and deploying your websites in such a way that any improvemen...
https://platform.sh/blog/share-your-failures-fix-them-faster
Many software developers build their product on Platform.sh. You can take several approaches, some of which are very straightforward. For i...
The question that people who don’t know us constantly ask, “What does Platform.sh do, _exactly_?” Our (/demo/) aims to ...
The world is becoming too fast, too complex, and too networked for any company to have all the answers inside. Yochai Benk...
https://platform.sh/blog/creating-problem-solving-partnerships-through-open-innovation
Organizations thrive on organization. But as the number of projects and contributors you organize within your organization grows, it become...
Almost four million U.S. workers a month are (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm). More than half of North...
https://platform.sh/blog/keeping-afloat-during-flood-of-worker-turnover
(https://www.contextualcode.com/) specializes in enterprise-level projects for state government agencies. We routinely tac...
https://platform.sh/blog/using-aws-s3-snapshot-repository-elasticsearch-platformsh
Hey friends, I recently joined Platform.sh as a Developer Relations Engineer, and I’ve been playing with the platform for a few weeks now. ...
Higher education IT departments face a tricky balancing act when budgeting for server capacity. They need enough capacity to handle high-tr...
Pre-release announcement: We’re making the --visible-build flag available as an option for environments. (https://p...
https://platform.sh/blog/get-more-control-over-your-environments-with-build-variables
In March, (https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838) that two malicious commits were introduced onto the in-development PH...
https://platform.sh/blog/series-unfortunate-commits-notable-software-security
“Innovate or die.” Those three words are the alpha and omega of the marketplace. Keep making the same thing in the same way for the same pr...
https://platform.sh/blog/building-better-mousetrap-barebones-budget
Platform.sh and OVHcloud today announced their partnership and launch of the “OVHcloud Web PaaS powered by Platform.sh”, which provides dev...
Is it better to build software for digital experience and ecommerce or to buy it? Pose that deceptively simple question to Google and you’l...
When we launched Platform.sh, we wanted to make our user permissions model extremely flexible and granular by allowing you to grant your co...
https://platform.sh/blog/environment-types-simpler-user-permissions
Platform.sh is proud to (#press-release-platformsh-and-blackfireio-join-forces-to-accelerate-o...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-joins-forces-with-blackfire
Wisdom from Bureau of Digital principal and agency guru Carl Smith Forming a successful relationship with a digital agency partner really ...
https://platform.sh/blog/best-practices-for-engaging-digital-agency
Athletic eyewear retailer (/customers/stories/athletic-eyewear-retailer-sportrx-hits-peak-performance-with-platformsh/) and upcycl...
https://platform.sh/blog/four-reasons-to-build-ecommerce-site-with-modern-paas
Feature announcement: We've implemented the Platform.sh web application firewall onto all Enterprise and Elite projects. There’s a lot of ...
https://platform.sh/blog/trust-platformsh-waf-to-defend-your-data
WordPress is _the_ legacy content management system. It's remained tremendously popular since its release in 2003 for the power it gives us...
https://platform.sh/blog/bedrock-modern-wordpress-development
Running mission-critical web apps and sites comes with inherent operational challenges, but you can often avoid those challenges with infor...
https://platform.sh/blog/plan-monitor-operate-more-knowledgeably-with-metrics
Source Operations is a new Platform.sh feature that lets you specify commands to commit changes to your project's repository. The Source Op...
https://platform.sh/blog/source-operations-sorcery-summoning-the-multiheaded-gatsby-fleet
(https://www.getopensocial.com/) provides online community solutions that enable organizations to create engaging platforms, c...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-to-build-a-real-time-saas-business-with-an-open-source-drupal-core
Last year, we released a new feature called Source Operations—an addition to your `.platform.app.yaml` configuration that allows you to spe...
https://platform.sh/blog/source-operations-sorcery-putting-the-flavor-back-into-vanilla-wordpress
## Don’t let your development block production Unquestionably, Platform.sh’s biggest feature is its environments. Whatever your applicatio...
https://platform.sh/blog/keep-your-production-moving-with-parallel-activities
## How to tell if your computer’s been hacked and what to do about it Having nefarious people take over your machine is something that we ...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-to-tell-if-your-computers-been-hacked-and-what-to-do-about-it
Today we’re happy to announce a new podcast: (https://podcast.platform.sh...
https://platform.sh/blog/were-deploying-a-new-podcast-about-web-technology
We’ve talked a lot recently about decoupling websites: (/blog/what-the-heck-is-a-decoupled-website/) and (...
https://platform.sh/blog/time-to-breakup-three-reasons-to-decouple-your-application
## Never face an expired certificate again. Platform.sh has offered Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for HTTPS connections auto...
https://platform.sh/blog/https-and-tls-certificates-always-served-fresh
Five minutes may not seem like much time. (Unless, of course, someone asks you to hold your breath for that long.) But when it comes to sch...
https://platform.sh/blog/weve-lowered-our-cron-minimal-interval-to-one-minute
If you’re like most developers, you want to flex your creative muscle. Some days, you may feel more like a mad scientist, tacking together ...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-digital-agency-adapt-innovates-without-heavy-lifting
Lazard, one of the world's leading financial advisory and asset management firms, has named Platform.sh to its list of European companies w...
https://platform.sh/blog/lazard-names-platformsh-to-their-t100-index
`.env` files are increasingly popular as a way to configure an application by securely storing configuration settings, environment variable...
Yesterday security firm (https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/...
When you create a new repository in Git, the “default branch”—the top-level branch, from which all subsequent branches split off from and m...
https://platform.sh/blog/renaming-your-projects-default-branch
## You can go home again: How two Platform.sh engineers stepped away and then stepped up For Yann Deshayes, the realization came while he ...
Many organizations find their resources for creating and improving their products being siphoned off by the need to maintain their products...
https://platform.sh/blog/free-your-developers-the-simple-way-to-rebalance-your-devops-resources
Ask a non-technical professional what the most challenging part of their job is and you’ll often hear, “Understanding what the heck our dev...
https://platform.sh/blog/what-the-heck-is-a-decoupled-website
If you're one of the 12 million users of Slack, the ubiquitous business messaging platform, the first Monday morning of the new year might ...
Two of the leading free software databases on the market had new releases this year, and we are happy to report they are now available on P...
https://platform.sh/blog/better-performance-with-mariadb-105-and-postgresql-13
We knew this holiday season would be unlike any other before it. In 2020, retail as we knew it was reinvented in real time as merchants scr...
https://platform.sh/blog/record-breaking-2020-black-friday-cyber-monday-volumes
Platform.sh, the end-to-end web platform for agile teams, is pleased to announce that we have joined Gaia-X, a private-public initiative to...
Ask a non-technical professional what the most challenging part of their job is and you’ll often hear, “Understanding what the heck our dev...
A year in the making, PHP 8.0 has been released to the world! Sporting a plethora of new functionality to offer more power with less code, ...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-brings-it-all-together-on-platformsh
(/blog/php-8-0-feature-focus-attributes/) talked about the most contentious new feature of PHP 8.0. In our 10th an...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-named-arguments
## **Speaking the language of family: how two Platform.sh veterans forged a friendship across the Atlantic Ocean** One’s daily commute tak...
https://platform.sh/blog/erin-austin-and-celine-villet-boongo
## Metaprogramming gets more meta in PHP 8.0. Last time, we looked at one of the three headline features of PHP 8.0: [Constructor Property...
The Git version control system is 15 years old and has by all accounts taken over the development world. It's unusual and weird to find a s...
The (/blog/php-80-feature-focus-just-in-time-compilation/) talked about how PHP 8.0 makes PHP faster. Today, we'll look at a way...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-constructor-property-promotion
As the Node.js 14.x release line enters the list of versions in Long Term Support under the name ‘Fermium’, Node 15 brings fresh features a...
https://platform.sh/blog/nodejs-15-could-make-your-app-leaner-and-meaner
(/blog/php-80-feature-focus-language-tightening/), we looked at ways in which PHP 8.0 has become stricter. Today, we look at the...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-just-in-time-compilation
Ask a non-technical professional what the most challenging part of their job is and you’ll often hear, “Understanding what the heck our dev...
In our (/blog/php-80-feature-focus-quality-of-life-improvements/) we went over several smaller feature improvements to PHP. T...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-language-tightening
## Commuting from the playground: How a Platform.sh engineer shaped the company’s biggest department with his toddlers on his lap In 2014,...
When it comes to secure shell (SSH) authentication, there is a widespread consensus that SSH certificates hold an edge over SSH keys (thoug...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-do-you-manage-ssh-keys-in-your-organization
Our (/blog/php-80-feature-focus-type-nullsafe-methods/) looked at a new way to make null values nicer to work with. PHP 8.0 h...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-quality-of-life-improvements
In 2016, Open Social (https://www.getopensocial.com/blog/open-social-news/proud-announce-our-partnership-platfor...
https://platform.sh/blog/open-social-a-saas-solution-to-deliver-customizable-communities-at-scale
Last week we used (/blog/php-80-feature-focus-weak-maps/) to solve one edge case. Today, we simplify the most common and annoyin...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-type-nullsafe-methods
Ask a non-technical professional what the most challenging part of their job is and you’ll often hear, “Understanding what the heck our dev...
In our (/blog/php-80-feature-focus-match-expressions/), we discussed PHP 8's new `match()` expression. Today we look at an ed...
In our (/blog/php-80-feature-focus-type-improvements/), we discussed coming improvements to PHP's type system. Today we look ...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-match-expressions
PHP 8 is almost here, and with it a host of improvements, new functionality, and overall polish to make the web's favorite server-side lang...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-80-feature-focus-type-improvements
## From the East to the West: how a Platform.sh engineer ventured into a new world On a warm June night in 2017, Mahdi Mokhtariirani was t...
On July 28, in a ruling privacy experts had long predicted, the Court of Justice of the European Union in its Schrem II decision struck dow...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform-sh-and-customers-shielded-from-privacy-shield-decision
Platform.sh, an end-to-end web platform for agile teams, is pleased to announce the expansion of its services to the West US 2 datacenter r...
Your organization is running multiple apps and websites. And it’s your job as a developer to keep all those sites running efficiently, secu...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-business-case-for-switching-to-a-paas
Like clockwork, the next release of PHP is slated to come out on November 26th. It's packed with new features and performance improvements,...
https://platform.sh/blog/pre-release-php-8-0-images-now-available
For every developer coding up the next world-changing app, there's a publicist or a marketer or a salesperson working alongside them to mak...
Today, we’re announcing Keyless Secure Shell (SSH) access to your Platform.sh websites. Powered by (https://oauth.net/2/) and [SSH...
https://platform.sh/blog/onboard-faster-stay-secure-with-keyless-ssh
## Beating biases: how a Platform.sh manager navigated her path through the tech world and motherhood It's 5 AM in the morning when Sawsse...
“We’ve doubled our growth every year for the last three years running,” says Roland Benedetti, senior vice president of strategy at Ibexa. ...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-ibexa-achieved-exponential-growth-after-their-white-label-launch
The first part of your web application that users will see is its installer. It's a surprisingly important piece of your application, yet b...
In May, we wrote about the (/blog/headless-strapi-and-wordpress-content-with-gatsby-builds/), the idea of separating ...
https://platform.sh/blog/headless-but-this-time-live-decoupled-drupal-with-gatsby
FleetOps—running a large fleet of apps and websites efficiently, securely, and predictably—is a challenge for every organization. One diffi...
We’re proud to have been sponsors of Drupal’s online event, DrupalCon Global, this July. (/blog/supporting...
https://platform.sh/blog/connecting-with-the-community-at-drupalcon-global
## Taking the open path with an open mind: how a Platform.sh VP found her vocation Maria Antinkaapo had been at Platform.sh for four month...
Whether you’re an open source software developer or using software to power your business, speed matters. Platform.sh has always delivered ...
[This post is heavily inspired by Christopher Skene's 2017 "What is best practice in web application deployment." Three years is a long tim...
https://platform.sh/blog/best-practices-in-deploying-web-apps-updated-for-2020
In April, (/blog/improving-access-and-security-for-your-projects/). SSO provides for greater mitigation controls...
https://platform.sh/blog/sso-for-platformsh-now-available-for-openid-connect-and-google
After twenty years as a successful Web Content Management vendor, eZ Systems last month announced the launch of its new corporate brand ide...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-partner-eZ-Systems-announces-name-change-to-ibexa
Platform.sh has a comprehensive (/marketplace/) for you to use when starting a project. While he...
Last month (/blog/improve-visibility-over-your-external-integrations/) that the external integrations you enable in your Plat...
https://platform.sh/blog/integrations-management-through-platform-sh-console
## Should we build or should we buy? The current "Corona climate" is forcing SaaS vendors to ask questions about their cash management p...
“The current economic climate is seeing many more people working from home,” says Axel Minck, CEO of Opigno, a Swiss-based learning managem...
https://platform.sh/blog/opigno-ready-for-spike-in-global-lms-demand
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Activity Scripts. Activity Scripts are custom pieces of JavaScript code that are added to...
https://platform.sh/blog/introducing-activity-scripts-or-how-to-build-your-own-platform.sh-features
I was (/blog/lisp/); I am thrilled to announce Elixir support on Platform.sh--excited, jubilant. I'll explain why....
Recently, Platform.sh hosted a live stream on our (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn5EpEMtxTCmLsbLgaN3djvEkRdp-YmlE)...
https://platform.sh/blog/headless-strapi-and-wordpress-content-with-gatsby-builds
Platform.sh now supports displaying activities from your integrations in the API or command line. This means that from now on, external in...
https://platform.sh/blog/improve-visibility-over-your-external-integrations
Platform.sh has recently completed audits of our processes to ensure compliance with Payment Card Industry, Data Security Standard ([PCI DS...
So far in this series we’ve shared the story of a white label client’s (/blog/a-10x-increase-in-enterprise-valuation-over...
https://platform.sh/blog/four-foundations-for-a-saas-business-model
(https://xdebug.org/) is an indispensable tool for every PHP developer. PHP's favorite real-time debugger, it supports breakpoints,...
The flexibility of Platform.sh has always been one of its strong points. We want you to be able to build your application the way you want,...
Platform.sh removes a major pain point for developers: having to invest time in managing servers, virtual machines, or containers. Instead,...
## Gain greater control over authentication and mitigation with single sign-on We trust that you are creating great applications. And we w...
https://platform.sh/blog/improving-access-and-security-for-your-projects
In my last article, I shared the recent story of a (/blog/a-10x-increase-in-enterprise-valuation-over-two-years-a-saas-...
https://platform.sh/blog/taking-your-application-to-saas-a-business-decision
DrupalCon North America and DrupalCon Europe are special events for Platform.sh. It is where we reconnected with our longtime friends in th...
Platform.sh offers new product tiers that deliver the features development teams need to manage multiple websites simultaneously. Find out ...
https://platform.sh/blog/new-enterprise-pricing-tiers-fleetops
There's a persistent myth in a relatively common word in tech - "suite." The suggestion is that it's a group that can operate as one cohesi...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-monolith-myth-why-tech-suites-are-not-solution
We can’t predict the future of tech, but we can plan for it to get the full value of our website investment. In this post, we explore Medi...
https://platform.sh/blog/building-a-resilient-digital-foundation-with-drupal-and-gatsby
Disk space is a finicky thing in many applications. It's easy for an application to use an unexpected amount of data, either on disk or in ...
In the span of two years, an up-and-coming ecommerce company went from a valuation of 2.5x revenue to 12x revenue, from a low nine-figure v...
https://platform.sh/blog/a-10x-increase-in-enterprise-valuation-over-two-years-a-saas-case-study
With the global COVID19 pandemic threatening the globe, dozens of conferences have had to either cancel or switch from in-person to online ...
_(This article was originally published in_ php _magazine, in two installments.)_ As a general rule, lying to people is a bad i...
In the wake of COVID-19, Platform.sh is fully operational and functioning at 100% reliability. We continue to closely monitor the impact of...
## A Survival Guide for managers who need to drive a company that became remote overnight We’ve built Platform.sh from the ground up as a ...
https://platform.sh/blog/survival-guide-for-efficient-remote-work
Early on March 3, 2020, Let's Encrypt (https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-...
## Platform.sh enables developers to launch Strapi, the leading open-source headless CMS Developers and content editors are faced with a c...
So far in our FFI series, we've covered how to (/blog/php-fun-with-ffi-just-enough-c/) and (/blog/ph...
In our (/blog/php-fun-with-ffi-just-enough-c/), we covered the basics of compiling C code, both as a stand-alone exe...
One of the new and exciting features of PHP 7.4 is its support for Foreign Function Interface, or PHP FFI. PHP FFI provides a much easier w...
The latest version of Node.js is now available on Platform.sh, and this LTS release delivers many performance optimizations and additional ...
https://platform.sh/blog/out-of-the-lab-Node.js-12-features-graduate-from-experimental-status
## Moving to cloud-native Cloud computing has brought many methodologies and techniques that have revolutionized both the business and tec...
https://platform.sh/blog/what-is-new-with-jakarta-nosql-part-II
Many applications and frameworks have the ability to host multiple application instances on a single code base. Usually such applications a...
https://platform.sh/blog/multisite-on-platform.sh-the-how-and-why
Platform.sh provides a host of useful tools that simplify the lives of the good people in DevOps. Features in development can have their ow...
https://platform.sh/blog/migrating-your-applications-made-simple
The latest version of Python is now available on Platform.sh! In addition to the deluge of bug fixes and improvements you'd expect with eve...
https://platform.sh/blog/sharpen-your-tusks-it-is-time-for-python-3.8
To make your life easier, we are open-sourcing our graphical analysis tool for Platform.sh PHP projects. Though written for our own needs a...
https://platform.sh/blog/faster-friendlier-analytics-for-your-php-project
## Introduction to Document with MongoDB Jakarta EE picks up where Java EE 8 left off, but the roadmap going forward will be focused on mo...
New benefits, potential for web development agency partners Platform.sh was born from the belief that we could improve the process of soft...
https://platform.sh/blog/next-gen-platformsh-partner-program-launches
## Increase visibility, watch deployments unfold in real time Streaming deploy hooks and SSH access is a new feature that increases your v...
For many retailers, the success—or failure—of Black Friday and Cyber Monday represent the success or failure of their entire ye...
The latest and greatest release of the world's most widely used web development language is now in the wild. The PHP development team has [...
If there was one feature that most distinguishes Platform.sh, it would be complete branches and (https://platform.sh/blog/we-...
https://platform.sh/blog/supersize-app-containers-in-your-dev-environments
Since our first _Java in the cloud with Platform.sh_ series (/blog/java-hello-world-at-platform.sh/), we talked about various [framew...
https://platform.sh/blog/ready-to-have-fun-try-kotlin-and-spring
Last week, the PHP development team released PHP 7.1.33, 7.2.24, and (https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-10-24-2), all of wh...
https://platform.sh/blog/php-devs-platform.sh-protects-you-from-cve-2019-11043
There are some projects that require a massive amount of time to run specific features: an e-commerce scenario or a system that needs to se...
https://platform.sh/blog/scale-your-application-with-spring-and-rabbitm
In April, we introduced our (/blog/shiny-new-platformsh-web-management-console/), a long-time effort meant to...
How many websites and applications do you think the average medium to large organization runs? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Waaaay back in...
As hinted in the (/blog/automating-updates-source-operations/), one of the potential use cases for (https...
Source Operations: automate maintenance, from single sites to fleets As part of our continual effort to make (htt...
https://platform.sh/blog/automating-updates-source-operations
So far in our mini-series we've talked about the new (/blog/automating-updates-source-operations/) feature, and how it m...
https://platform.sh/blog/admiral-an-example-of-website-fleet-automation
At Platform.sh, we understand that modern web development isn’t restricted to just PHP or Node.js. It’s not a one language game out there; ...
https://platform.sh/blog/perpetually-polyglot-dotnet-on-platform.sh
Apache Kafka is a community-distributed streaming platform that has three key capabilities: publish and subscribe to streams of records, st...
https://platform.sh/blog/apache-kafka-streamline-communication-across-your-microservices
At Platform.sh, we like keeping one eye directed toward social good. One of the first initiatives we undertook upon entering the US market ...
This September, () come into force in Europe to improve credit card payment security. As a result, you may need to take a ...
Redis is a software project that implements data structure servers. Open source and networked, Redis stores keys with optional durability. ...
Recently, the PHP team released a security update for PHP 7.3.9, 7.2.22, and 7.1.32. This update fixes a [remote code execution vulnerabili...
https://platform.sh/blog/security-updates-for-php-rolling-out-now
(https://gradle.org/) is an open-source build automation system that builds upon the concepts of (https://ant.apache.or...
https://platform.sh/blog/simplify-your-script-build-with-gradle
The team behind Go has released version 1.13 of the network-friendly language. That means it's time for us to release it, too. x If you're ...
PHP 7.4 is due out late this year and is easily the most anticipated release in four years. With a host of new improvements to developer qu...
https://platform.sh/blog/try-out-the-future-of-php-on-platform.sh-today
Microservices are a hot topic in software design, and for good reason. They have plenty of advantages when it comes to handling infrastruct...
https://platform.sh/blog/microservices-in-the-cloud-part-two
Microservices are a software architecture, where the systems are a collection of several independent services. Each service has a specific ...
https://platform.sh/blog/microservices-in-the-cloud-part-one
I am going to suffer horrendously writing this blog post without doing _any_ Lisp jokes; Because the thing about Lisp is that it is not onl...
Platform.sh takes documentation seriously. Software is, after all, only as good as its resources and how well they help you use it. We str...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform.sh-documentation-new-guides-new-look
Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is an umbrella that holds specifications and APIs with enterprise features like distributed computing and...
https://platform.sh/blog/jakarta-ee-generation-iv-a-new-hope
Today we announced the expansion of our relationship with Orange—one of the world's largest telecommunications companies—to inc...
Platform.sh has always offered a database service called "mysql." Afterall, it’s the dominant Open Source database. However, as with most p...
Platform.sh makes configuring applications simple with a collection of YAML files in your project repository. Any project can specify the a...
https://platform.sh/blog/version-will-be-required-in-type-what-it-means-for-your-projects
Today, thousands of developers use Platform.sh to solve web app development problems of all kinds. The new [Platform.sh Developer Community...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform.sh-developer-community-launches
If you’re running a Drupal website—or a fleet of Drupal websites—you’ve got a lot of choices for hosting them. Why pick option ...
https://platform.sh/blog/switching-hosting-platforms-modern-drupal
_Divide and conquer_—the most critical Roman strategy—works efficiently in several areas. The context to take any giant issue a...
https://platform.sh/blog/eclipse-microprofiles-gain-agility-release-faster
## Look ma! No hands! Although our main API is Git itself, Platform.sh has a powerful RESTful API that enables you to manage nearly every ...
https://platform.sh/blog/new-api-docs-help-you-automate-workflows
One of the big things that drives Drupal 8 adoption is an easy ability to "try it out." That is a fantastic Umami distribution project. > ...
https://platform.sh/blog/umami-distribution-testing-automation-diffy-platformsh
The trendy word _big data_ comes from the 3 Vs: volume, variety, and velocity. Volume refers to the size of data; variety refers to the div...
https://platform.sh/blog/elasticsearch-vs-solr-have-both-with-Spring-Data-and-Platform.sh
When web teams build a site, DevOps is one of the least visible tasks—and one of the most time consuming. A shiny, user-friendly site, with...
https://platform.sh/blog/web-dev-plus-IT-unique-roles-equal-partners-in-application-success
How difficult is it for a Java developer to create an application that needs to handle front-end technology? It’s a difficult question—and ...
https://platform.sh/blog/Spring-MVC-and-MongoDB-a-match-made-in-Platform.sh-heaven
Today, I wanted to share some thoughts about Platform.sh Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Security and Availability certification (2017...
https://platform.sh/blog/soc-2-certification-challenges-and-opportunities
We’re excited to share (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome) as a service is now available o...
https://platform.sh/blog/off-with-its-head-headless-Chrome-as-a-service
We've made a minor update to our privacy policy, to update the list of domains from which customer sites are served. We want to make it cle...
Today, Platform.sh is announcing support for Java technologies. And in this post, we'll cover how easy it is to either create or move your ...
Platform.sh is pleased to announce the availability of the (https://kafka.apache.org) streaming data service. Kafka is used t...
**Diary: entry one**. (Honestly, I’ll be cramming the last few years of my experiences and knowledge gained into this blog series.) My plan...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-diaries-and-adventures-of-a-saas-entrepreneur
Platform.sh took the lead among Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors in 2017 with our (/blog/now-avail...
## “It worked in staging” … says the dev team. And the ops team replies: “it must be a code issue." Developers and ops people sometimes h...
We have updated our (/trust-center/legal/tos/), located at https://platform.sh/trust-center/legal/tos/ and [Privacy Polic...
Since Platform.sh launched support for (/blog/when-your-job-is-too-tough-for-cron) last year, the number-one feature requ...
https://platform.sh/blog/shared-network-storage-now-available
We’re thrilled to announce that our new management console is now available to all Platform.sh customers. It’s all new, but should also fee...
https://platform.sh/blog/shiny-new-platformsh-web-management-console
The Platform.sh team just returned from our first Adobe Summit. As regular Magento Imagine participants, we had enjoyed that event's smalle...
Platform.sh, like any good PaaS, exposes a lot of useful information to applications via environment variables. The obvious parts, of cours...
https://platform.sh/blog/even-more-batteries-included-platformsh-configuration-libraries
This week we've covered how we run three very different applications on Platform.sh: - (/blog/four-days-four-langu...
It's day three of our four-part series of posts about running Static Site Generators (SSGs) and alternative Content Management Systems on P...
(/blog/four-days-four-languages-four-frameworks-on-platformsh) we looked at running a "traditional" CMS on Platform.sh — B...
https://platform.sh/blog/four-days-four-languages-four-frameworks-day-2-running-hugo
Platform.sh is well-known as the premier platform for developing and delivering applications in Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, Typo3, EZ, and ...
https://platform.sh/blog/four-days-four-languages-four-frameworks-on-platformsh
As part of our ongoing efforts to protect our clients' and partners' privacy and digital security, we’re planning to drop support for older...
2018 was an incredible year for Platform.sh. In fact, it was probably the most important year in the company’s short history. And I’d like ...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-full-speed-ahead-into-2019
HTTP itself includes fairly robust rules around caching of web requests. For most applications that’s completely fine, and the (htt...
For most startups—and most of today’s enterprise organizations—open source software (OSS) has become the lifeblood of IT and development or...
https://platform.sh/blog/open-source-software-roi-for-your-organization
PostgreSQL 9.6 has been available for quite some time and has served our websites valiantly. But technology never stops moving, and neither...
We've had Ruby 2.5 in beta for a while now, although we haven't talked about it much. It's been working wonderfully, though, and rubies mak...
A few weeks ago, it was snowing. Actually, snow isn’t quite the right descriptor. It was a chilly mixture of snow, rain, and sleet, with a ...
Django —a high-level framework—makes web development in Python easy. Platform.sh—a second-generation Platform-as-a-Service—makes the deploy...
https://platform.sh/blog/how-to-deploy-your-django-project-on-platformsh
PHP continues its steady march forward, and today marks the release of the latest version, (https://php.net/releases/7_3_0.php). ...
https://platform.sh/blog/deploy-with-php-73-this-friday-er-thursday
There’s a common pattern within many fast-growing B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startups. (Think about Slack, Twilio, Atlassian, Github....
https://platform.sh/blog/b2b-softwareasaservice-companies-accelerate-your-journey-to-enterprise
We have updated our Privacy Policy, located at https://platform.sh/trust-center/privacy/privacy-policy, to version 2.1. We have made these...
Black Friday may be just a week away, but shoppers have already started descending on ecommerce sites everywhere. “The new normal” in onlin...
https://platform.sh/blog/our-black-friday-gift-10000-cpus-overnight-without-downtime
It’s been just over a year since Platform.sh launched its service in Australia, and we thought it was time to take a step back and reflect....
https://platform.sh/blog/good-morning-australia-were-back-in-business
Launched by Chinese tech giant, Tencent, in 2011, WeChat is the Chinese super-app you won't be able to avoid in the near future. But it's n...
https://platform.sh/blog/why-you-should-care-about-wechat-before-its-too-late
Platform.sh aims to support your applications, whatever they may be. We've supported PHP, Python, Ruby, and Node.js for quite some time now...
We take user privacy seriously at Platform.sh, and we want to make sure we give you the most control possible over how and when we communic...
https://platform.sh/blog/were-improving-our-communications-tools-at-platformsh
New rapid-launch capabilities and APIs enable software companies to move to the cloud and create new recurring revenue businesses in weeks,...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-launches-whitelabel-saas-factory
Python is one of the most popular programming languages of the last decade (hey most of Platform.sh is written in Python!). It doesn't matt...
https://platform.sh/blog/deploy-your-python-37-code-to-the-moon
Platform.sh, provider of the idea-to-cloud application platform that simplifies cloud infrastructures, has been named winner of a 2018...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-wins-2018-stratus-award-for-cloud-computing
The cicada is a flying insect found world-wide. It's loud but not particularly threatening. It's most famous attribute, though, is that man...
Platform.sh continues to expand its service to new places, and we’re excited to announce the immediate availability of Canada as a new regi...
_Microservices_ have been all the rage for the past several years. They're the new way to make applications scalable, robust, and break dow...
PHP is a rapidly-evolving language. Recent years have seen the adoption of a very clear and mostly consistent release process with a new ve...
https://platform.sh/blog/its-july-2018-do-you-know-what-your-php-is
Software developers keep releasing new versions, which means we keep adding them to our list of supported services. ### All the Mongos Ou...
This is it! The last post of our GDPR series and the good news is that this step should be relatively easy to do, but does involve a lot of...
https://platform.sh/blog/your-guide-to-gdpr-compliance-training-your-employees
Over the last 2 years, I have had more and more conversations with customers about their Docker experiences, and how complicated it is to b...
The acquisition of Github by Microsoft has already been extensively commented on by analysts, and much has been rightfully said already. Th...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-github-acquisition-its-all-about-cloud-for-microsoft
The GDPR went into effect last week. We all got a billion emails with people surprisingly updating their privacy policies. Many spread FUD....
https://platform.sh/blog/your-guide-to-gdpr-compliance-transfers-of-personal-data-to-third-countries
Today is GDPR day! Woot! We already told you, GDPR is not about a date. This is a long-haul journey that, we firmly believe is making the I...
It’s hard to believe that four years ago, Platform.sh was just 14 people working in a small office in Paris. Looking back since the initial...
https://platform.sh/blog/speed-confidence-and-simplicity-what-our-34m-raise-means-for-you
Continuing on from our GDPR series, with the first, second, and third posts, we are now going to address the topic of people’s privacy righ...
https://platform.sh/blog/your-guide-to-gdpr-compliance-data-subject-rights
Investment to Accelerate Growth and Customer Success in North America, Following Strong Adoption Platform.sh, provider of the idea-to-clou...
If you’ve been following our GDPR blog series, you’ll start to understand that the future of privacy cannot rely only on laws and regulatio...
https://platform.sh/blog/data-protection-by-design-and-default
What is GDPR? The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmoni...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-confirms-that-it-is-ready-for-the-gdpr
The Drupal project today released another security update to Drupal 7 and 8 core, (https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-0...
We've offered customers the ability to subscribe to updates and notices about our service for a long time, using https://status.platform.sh...
After our introduction to GDPR and our first post on roles and responsibilities, our 2nd blog post will discuss the importance of the six p...
A key part of Platform.sh's benefit comes from its integrated build and deploy hooks. Deploying a new version of your site or application r...
In our introductory GDPR blog post, we introduced the different definitions of personal data and how organizations can handle, process, and...
https://platform.sh/blog/your-guide-to-gdpr-compliance-roles-and-responsibilities
With the recent news on Cambridge Analytica and calls to #deleteFacebook, protecting people’s rights and freedoms in relation to their pers...
https://platform.sh/blog/your-guide-to-gdpr-compliance-introduction
If you are going to expand your operations or launch your product in another country, especially in China, would you travel ten thousand...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-is-going-the-distance-in-china-with-impact-china-2018
An hour ago the SA-CORE-2018-002 critical Drupal vulnerability was disclosed. It was announced a week ago PSA-2018-001. That allowed us to ...
Platform.sh customers should visit Safe from DrupalGeddon II aka SA-CORE-2018-02 for the specific steps we took to protect all our Drupal i...
A week ago the Drupal security team published a dire-sounding advisory PSA-2018-001, rated highly-critical for Drupal core. The announcemen...
https://platform.sh/blog/drupal-critical-core-vulnerability-announced
One of the best features of a Software as a Service platform (like Platform.sh) is the regular, automatic upgrades. When the system gets be...
With less than 100 days to go until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, many companies are realizing that th...
https://platform.sh/blog/using-cloud-technology-and-automation-to-help-enterprises-become-gdpr-ready
_We published this post in February 2018 because above all, we value the relationship we have with our customers, and strive for transparen...
https://platform.sh/blog/we-are-nothing-without-our-customers-success
Scrum is easy to do badly, and hard to do well. One of its main challenges is effectively managing changes in a way that doesn't cause conf...
Platform.sh provides Node.js in all our containers, regardless of whether it's a proper Node.js container, currently this is 6.x LTS. Thoug...
https://platform.sh/blog/changing-the-nodejs-version-in-your-application-container
We always aim to offer our customers the best experience possible, with the tools they want to use. Usually that means expanding the platfo...
Shortly after the success of the prestigious French Tech Tour China 2017, Platform.sh is excited to be invited to join the elite Impact Chi...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-is-ready-to-make-an-impact-in-china
By now you have likely heard of two large hardware vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre (https://spectreattack.com/) which have sent...
https://platform.sh/blog/spectremeltdown-security-update-notice
Platform.sh allows users to create a byte-for-byte snapshot of any running environment, production or otherwise, at any time with a single ...
Time flies. It's been quite a year for Platform.sh as our product continues to improve. One of the great things about a managed services ...
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the encryption protocol used by all secure websites today. It's the "S" in "HTTPS", which you'll see on ...
Platform.sh has always put a great value on customer flexibility. That flexibility at times can seem bewildering, however, as users have a...
PHP 7.2 introduced a neat new feature called "type widening". In short, it allows methods that inherit from a parent class or interface to...
Many of you know Platform.sh as your go-to modern PHP cloud solution; A bunch of you have been running NodeJS for the last two years. But ...
https://platform.sh/blog/living-on-the-edge-with-ruby-25-preview
As you might know, Platform.sh allows you to create, on-the-fly, an ephemeral staging/development environment, on the cloud, for every git ...
Our Asia-Pacific team kicks off a whirlwind tour this week, with visits to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing over the ne...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-joins-the-prestigious-french-tech-tour-china-2017
Today the PHP development team released the latest version of the web's favorite language, PHP 7.2.0. Huge thanks and congratulations to e...
API Platform is probably the most feature-rich, well... platform, to build robust API driven backends from REST services to GraphQL...
Yesterday, the WordPress team along with security researcher Anthony Ferrara released a new version of WordPress, version 4.8.3 that fixes ...
https://platform.sh/blog/wordpress-security-updates-the-quick-way
Platform.sh aims to be a complete solution for web development and hosting, while at the same time offering the flexibility to slot into yo...
Platform.sh now supports regular expressions for wildcard cookie matching at the cache layer. Platform.sh Professional includes a dynamic ...
https://platform.sh/blog/wildcard-support-for-cookies-in-the-http-cache
A repeatable and consistent build-and-deploy pipeline is an essential part of any modern web application. Platform.sh has this philosophy a...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-platformsh-build-and-deploy-pipeline
One of our most requested features is better built-in monitoring and notification support for user projects. We've just made it easy monito...
In this tutorial we will see how to quickly deploy a new Drupal 8 site and build a couple of features, in a repeatable, testable and automa...
https://platform.sh/blog/screencast-develop-your-drupal-8-site-with-drush-composer-and-platformsh
A global city, a dynamic event, and a world-class hosting platform. Platform.sh is excited to be joining Orange Cloud for Business at Huawe...
https://platform.sh/blog/platformsh-joins-orange-cloud-for-business-at-huawei-connect-2017-shanghai
Cron jobs are good. Cron jobs are nice. But sometimes, a Cron job just isn’t enough. Running a task now and again may be good for some j...
https://platform.sh/blog/when-your-job-is-too-tough-for-cron
As Director of Developer Experience, I get to play with a number of different systems. There’s a lot of existing web applications on the m...
https://platform.sh/blog/6-things-to-do-to-make-your-application-cloud-friendly
If you've been thinking about using Platform.sh, but haven't dipped your toes yet, you might be interested to know that Platform.sh offers ...
https://platform.sh/blog/want-to-try-platformsh-get-started-for-free
In the first article in this TYPO3 series, I explained that when you host TYPO3 at Platform.sh, it is hosted on a read-only file system whi...
https://platform.sh/blog/hosting-your-typo3-website-with-platformsh-part-2-branching-and-workspaces
TYPO3 is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems, but it can only thrive if you leave it room to fully operate. The...
Our game-changing Continuous Deployment web hosting is now available in an Australian region. Customers in Australia, New Zealand and...
https://platform.sh/blog/deploy-down-under-platformsh-is-now-available-in-australia
One of the advantages of a fully container-based infrastructure is that we can roll out new versions of containers to support new service v...
https://platform.sh/blog/containers-old-containers-new-memcached-support-and-php-72
One of the requests we've gotten in the past few months is the ability to customize the HTTP headers that get sent with static assets. For ...
https://platform.sh/blog/wrap-your-head-around-custom-headers
_Platform.sh no longer offers a Sovereign Hosting Solution in Microsoft Cloud Germany, it has been replaced with an alternative German regi...
https://platform.sh/blog/now-available-sovereign-hosting-solution-in-microsoft-cloud-germany
**For an updated version of this article please read our (/blog/best-practices-in-deploying-web-apps-updated-for-2020/) post.** For ...
https://platform.sh/blog/what-is-best-practice-in-web-application-deployment
Platform.sh has always prided itself on offering our customers as much flexibility to control their own projects as we can. What language t...
In a short month Polyconf, an incredibly cool conference, will be held for the first time in Paris (July 7th to 9th). PolyConf is a three-...
https://platform.sh/blog/getting-to-5050-women-men-participation-polyconf-a-very-diverse-conference
For first-time users of Platform.sh, especially those who had to change up their processes, it can take some time to get used a new way of ...
https://platform.sh/blog/the-ultimate-third-party-resources-list-on-using-platformsh
Ever since the internet and mobile changed the media landscape - making it easier to disseminate news - it is imperative that media compani...
https://platform.sh/blog/slatefr-revived-its-devops-approach-with-platformsh
Hello there! We were recently at DrupalCon in Baltimore, and after watching some of our competitors demos I came home with a fresh convict...
https://platform.sh/blog/screencast-composer-and-continuous-integration
DevOps should be seen as a ‘capability’ within your organization, but for some it can be seen as an overhead. If IT is a main part of your ...
As a Gold sponsor for the dotSecurity and dotScale conferences this year, we wanted to offer the crowd a nice Parisian experience...
https://platform.sh/blog/sponsoring-predotscale-and-election-drinks
At Platform.sh, we believe that all websites deserve to be secure, fast, and feature-rich, and that it should be easy to have all three. Se...
https://platform.sh/blog/free-ssl-certificates-for-every-project-every-environment
Platform.sh is different. Why? Because it allows developers, editors and project managers to focus on their applications and leave the rest...
https://platform.sh/blog/typo3-and-platformsh-a-love-letter-from-germany
I just attended my sixth Magento Imagine. I’ve missed only one and that was the very first that was held near the Los Angeles Airport...
https://platform.sh/blog/imagine-2017-the-new-magento-ecosystem
Caching is a vital part of your web application. Properly implemented, it results in faster page loads, lower latency and fewer requests to...
Elasticsearch is one of the most popular Free Software search engines available. It’s fast, flexible, and easy to work with. It’s also now...
(With due apologies to Jim Croce.) Our efforts to expand the power and capability of users of Platform.sh continues! The latest addition t...
When your company sells luxury items, you want your website to offer that same exclusive, stunning digital experience for your customers to...
New US headquarters and CEO relocation in San Francisco. US Board of advisors with senior execs from Twilio, Atlassian, Apple. Aggressive N...
https://platform.sh/blog/expands-usa-operations-meet-growing-demand-north-america
(Because alliterations are always appropriate.) As we hinted at previously when rolling out Apache Solr 6.3, we’re rolling out new fu...
Platform.sh will be getting Old Skool at the OOP conference 2017 in Munich from 30 January - 3 February, where our crew will do live-on-the...
Redis is a popular key-value database, well-regarded for its speed and simplicity. Platform.sh has offered a Redis service for quite some t...
After ending 2016 with a new PHP version and starting 2017 with a new HTTP version, we’re happy to report that there’s still...
You might have heard about the MongoDB scare with titles like: MongoDB Apocalypse Is Here as Ransom Attacks Hit 10,000 Servers! Rest ...
First, a joyous and productive 2017 to you all. 2016 was really great for us as a growing company and the new year is a great time to look ...
All the fastness just got faster. A couple of days ago we finished 2016 in beauty, announcing PHP 7.1 which allows you to do some...
We were hoping to have this announcement out in time for Christmas gift but it was not to be. Instead it’s an early New Years gift. Nonethe...
As you may already know, Platform.sh is a fully distributed company. I can even say that we were born as a distributed company. Since...
In my former life I was a Drupal consultant and architect with Palantir.net. One of my former colleagues there, Michelle Krejci, had a sayi...
As we wrote about recently, all of the inputs to an application running on Platform.sh are clearly defined, predictable, and with one ...
Hi there! I come before you bearing the gift of a new screencast. Today’s offering will be a quick, technical runthough of how you set up y...
Platform.sh is the PaaS for major PHP vendors: Magento, eZ Systems, TYPO3 and SensioLabs Originally built for Drupal, Platform.sh has ceme...
https://platform.sh/blog/leader-php-hosting-multiple-partnerships
One of the key selling points of Platform.sh is predictable, repeatable deployments. We view the read-only production file system as a key ...
PHP was Platform.sh’s first supported language, and so has had a few quirks as we’ve grown to support more programming languages. Those qui...
Hello, and welcome back to the Platform.sh from Scratch series! As we are likely familiar (from being told if not from actual practice) - ...
https://platform.sh/blog/screencast-basic-platformsh-workflow
During the keynote address at SymfonyCon Berlin 2016, Fabien Potencier, CEO and founder of SensioLabs, announced SensioCloud, a new complet...
Hello, and welcome back to Platform.sh from scratch. In this post we’ll be reconfiguring your Laravel app that we’ve been working on in the...
Hello (!) and welcome back to Platform.sh from scratch. In this post we’ll learn about how to set up the Laravel app from the previous post...
Platform.sh, a continuous deployment cloud hosting provider, is pleased to announce today the latest appointment of Sara Golemon, previousl...
https://platform.sh/blog/hhvm-engineer-facebook-sara-golemon-leaves-silicon-valley
We’re happy to announce the availability of PostgreSQL 9.6 as a choice of service in Platform.sh. You can learn how to enable it in ou...
Say you have a decent sized project and your deployments are taking a while. Platform.sh rebuilds your entire application from scratch with...
At Platform.sh, we believe your application should be deployed on your terms. That’s why we support custom build and deploy scripts on ever...
Hi there and welcome back to Platform.sh from scratch. In this post we’ll convert a Laravel app for use on Platform and learn a few tricks ...
TYPO3 CMS 8 was presented in the cloud today at the TYPO3 Conference that is currently being held in Munich. Starting now, users can test T...
In response to growing demand, Platform.sh, the high-availability cloud hosting platform that is fast and simple to use, is heading Down Un...
We just deployed our new UI release 2.16 logically enough after 2.15 (which added eZ Platform to the new project wizard) and ...
In case you missed it, here’s the first post in the series - “Platform in a Nutshell”. Hello, and welcome back to “Platform.sh from s...
Have you noticed lately how, despite technology advances and a huge number of connected cloud services, you aren’t reducing costs in digita...
The TYPO3 Association and Platform.sh, the continuous delivery cloud hosting company, announce that TYPO3 is available for testing on Platf...
Software has eaten the world. The explosion of devices, screens and the global expectation for any connected thing we use to be super ...
In an increasingly connected world, organizations are looking for simpler and faster ways to collaborate, interact, and engage with their s...
It’s easy to mistake Platform.sh for a PHP host. After all, we provide hosting, and most of our customers run a PHP-based application, most...
Platform.sh is a unique and powerful development tool. However, because it’s so unlike any other development platform it’s not always immed...
We partnered with eZ Systems to accelerate development Organisations can build digital experiences at speed and scale with eZ’s open s...
Following our recent deployment UI release 2.14, check out our 4 improvements! First, you will find 2 new flexibilities in branch nam...
Hello, and welcome to “Platform.sh from Scratch”. In this prologue to the series, I’ll go over some of the very highest level concepts of P...
As you know GitHub is awesome for managing your codebase, Platform.sh is awesome for deploying your application and&nbs...
We have just deployed an important update on our infrastructure, with many bug fixes and new features. Notably, some long-wanted features,...
It’s been a month now since our previous UI release 2.12 . And today, we just deployed a new UI 2.13 release. You might already...
Keeping your applications running and secure remain our main goal! This week, Httpoxy, an important security vulnerability, has just ...
After only two weeks since our latest UI update we have just deployed a new UI one! As you know, we are always trying to improve...
Here are the list of web interface enhancements which will make your life easier: New warning notifications Grouping and hiding disable...
When Platform.sh launched, the majority of our business was Drupal 7 sites running Drupal Commerce. While we still host many of those, our ...
https://platform.sh/blog/no-more-default-configuration-files
June has been a busy month again at Platform.sh! Maybe you have seen us at the following events: WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna wh...
The Cloud is what we used to call "someone else’s computer." I’ve heard that line before many times. I’ve even said it a few myself. There...
https://platform.sh/blog/is-thecloud-really-someone-elses-computer
The Patriot Act and NSA programs like Prism raise scary questions about how safe your enterprise data is in the cloud, ...
It’s a problem every digital agency faces: how can we best deploy our resources for maximum customer benefit, efficiency and profit? Markus...
Platform.sh is a groundbreaking hosting and development tool for web applications. We’re a European VC-Backed startup with a host of blue-c...
It has been a while since we have made an announcement about UI updates. But today, we’re happy to anounce a new release for the Platform.s...
Drupal 8.1 has made a significant shift toward embracing Composer as the standard way to install and manage a Drupal site. Starting today, ...
https://platform.sh/blog/drupal-8-starter-kit-now-with-php-7-and-composer
Today, Platform.sh, the Continuous Deployment Platform-as-a-Service cloud hosting company, announces their plans to enable companies to run...
If you’ve followed up on Platform.sh news recently you may have seen it’s been quite a wild ride recently. Magento Commerce chose us to pow...
You’re a cool kid who uses Git to manage the codebase of your applications because it’s convenient! You regularly create exact copies of yo...
“Really ?” I hear you asking yourself. “Hell yeah” I say….after all, we are helping global software companies into the cloud, we&...
You’re developing your site on Platform.sh and you love the fact that you get exact copies of your production site for every Git branch tha...
Are you joining us at DrupalCon New Orleans next week? It’s going to be a blast! Those who have attended a DrupalCon before know how inten...
One of the deeply rewarding aspects of working within thriving open source communities is collaborating with exceptional people: individual...
Global commerce provider Integrates Platform.sh Into its New Enterprise Cloud Offering Today, Platform.sh, the Continuous Delivery Platfor...
https://platform.sh/blog/magento-enterprise-cloud-edition-powered-by-platform-sh
Lunar Delivery Network deploys PHP applications on the moon Just over 18 months ago, Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh, issued a challenge to...
Custom Platform.sh Enterprise subscription deployed to handle massive peak traffic Today, Platform.sh announces the adoption by Perfectly ...
https://platform.sh/blog/perfectly-posh-adopts-platform-sh-for-drupal-commerce
The power of continuous deployment is now available on the hosted infrastructure of Cloudwatt Orange Business Services thanks to the newly ...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform-available-on-cloudwatt-by-orange
We are proud to release a new major version of the Platform.sh CLI. We got some great feedback from you and there are some major ...
These are exciting times for us and we wanted to share the news… the award winning, container powered, git orchestrated, continuous deploym...
We couldn’t let January end without wishing you all the best for the upcoming year. A year can be a very, very long and eventful th...
It has been a while since we told you about the evolution of the Platform.sh CLI.. and much has happened. We worked hard on it...
There is a serious PHP bug for which there are exploits in the wild affecting the the PHP session extension (ext/session); vulnerable versi...
We are terribly happy to announce beta support for NodeJS in Platform.sh. Javascript developers can now enjoy the same incredible features...
Today is a very important day for the Drupal community around the globe! After many years and more than 3,300 people involved in contribut...
Platform.sh is a tool for serious people; And serious people use Java tooling. Anyway, if you are serious or not.. you can now use Ant and...
Platform.sh takes you well outside this jurisdiction anyway. Any EU based organisation who thought their EU originated confidential data w...
Symfony founder Fabien Potencier names Platform.sh “Killer App” Symfony founder and SensioLabs CEO Fabien Potencier took time in a recen...
Platform.sh to appear at North America’s largest free Drupal event. Platform.sh is a Contrib Level sponsor at the 2015 BADCamp O...
After wining the French National Award in July, yesterday in Barcelona, Platform.sh was awarded the title of “Best Horizontal Cloud Solut...
https://platform.sh/blog/best-horizontal-cloud-solution-for-2015-in-europe
Today we are proud to announce that HHVM is available as an application service on Platform.sh. HHVM is a drop-in replacement ...
I have been doing the REST style Micro-Services oriented architectures for the past seven or eight years now (seems it has become all the r...
Today, we are proud to announce that RabbitMQ is available on Platform.sh. RabbitMQ is an open source message broker service ...
Note: This article has been published on Symfony official blog. Read the source. Symfony’s documentation is an open source proje...
https://platform.sh/blog/symfony-documentation-pull-requests
Hi, I’m proud to announce that starting today, testing and deploying your applications on various PHP versions has never been that easy! ...
The very nice and competent people from Atlassian did us the great honor of featuring Platform.sh on their official blog today. Check ...
Platform.sh, the award-winning Platform-as-a-Service solution from Paris, France, is offering internships to aspiring ambitious cloud engin...
One of Facebooks’s mottos is “move fast and break things”. Being Facebook allows you to have multiple Mottos (remember “What would you...
One of the most frequent needs a web application has is a way to diagnose and evaluate performance problems. Because Platform.sh already ge...
Have you ever wondered how you can easily build your Drupal site on top of a distribution? And how to keep it up to date? And how to keep y...
Today, we are proud to announce version 3.0 of the Platform.sh documentation. In this release, we have split the documentation into m...
If you are thinking about building something on Drupal 8, or maybe you saw the the recent television interview with our CEO Frederic P...
https://platform.sh/blog/five-platform-sh-the-paas-for-drupal-8
Today, for the 1st edition of the CLOUD WEEK Paris, we have just won the trophy of the Best Cloud Services for horizontal markets...
https://platform.sh/blog/best-horizontal-cloud-platform-eurocloud
Fred Plais, CEO of Commerce Guys is interviewed by the main French Business TV Channel about Platform.sh, its innovative potential and the ...
In a highly selective process based on strict criteria around excellence, impact, and quality, Platform.sh was selected as a winner from a ...
Note: This article is an English translation from the original article from Antoine Crochet Damais in JournalduNet. Read the original ...
https://platform.sh/blog/2015-06-european-cloud-leadership-born-in-france
Today, at AtlasCamp we are incredibly excited to announce the availability of the Platform.sh add-on for Bitbucket Connect. Starting from ...
Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Platform.sh add-on for Bitbucket. This add-on allows you to deploy any branch or pull re...
Today, we are proud to announce the version 2.0 of the Platform.sh UI. This is a very important release which includes a lot of new featur...
Platform.sh, the Continuous Delivery Cloud, is up and running with one of the very first Enterprise production sites on Drupal 8, the newes...
https://platform.sh/blog/groundbreaking-drupal-8-news-portal-goes-live-platformsh
Have you ever dreamt of automatically testing and reviewing every single feature from your GitHub repository on a production-like envi...
https://platform.sh/blog/automatically-deploy-your-github-branches-and-pull-requests
We’re pleased to re-post this article by Chris Ward. The article was originally published on SitePoint. You can find more from Ch...
The command line has always been the most flexible and powerful way for us humans to communicate with their computers. For web developers, ...
In this post I will present, in very broad strokes, the workings of Platform.sh from a functional perspective. This will not be a discussi...
Containerization technologies offer higher density vs VMs but also some very useful abstractions. If not orchestrated, and built in a cons...
https://platform.sh/blog/containers-are-the-new-static-binaries
Platform.sh offers a deterministic approach to deploying applications. That means that the contents of your Git repository will determine e...
https://platform.sh/blog/file-structure-platform-application
Today, we are very happy to announce that the PHP containers deployed on Platform.sh come pre-installed with the Blackfire Profiler&nb...
Today, we are proud to announce the latest release of the Platform.sh UI. We came up with some improvements that will make your Platform.s...
We are proud to announce the latest release of the Platform.sh CLI. To install or upgrade, you can use Composer: composer global r...
Today, we’re proud to announce that Platform.sh is now listed as a recommended hosting solution for Symfony applications, alongside He...
https://platform.sh/blog/recommended-hosting-solution-symfony
June 10, 2014 was a special day for the Platform.sh team. We watched from around the world as something magical happened: our first online ...
On December 19, 2014, the maintainers of Git, the code revisioning tool used by Platform.sh, announced a vulnerability affecting Mac O...
We are proud to announce the latest release (version 1.6.0) of the Platform.sh CLI. To install or upgrade, you can use Composer: c...
Today, we are proud to announce the latest release of the Platform.sh UI. After listening to your feedback, we came up with improvements t...
We have been busy! Today, we are happy to announce three important new features of Platform.sh: Support for HTTP caching&nb...
https://platform.sh/blog/caching-custom-php-build-dependencies
Platform.sh becoming the hosting and development tool of choice for Drupal and Symfony web applications in North America and Europe. A gro...
We are proud to announce the latest release of the Platform.sh CLI. To install or upgrade, you can use Composer: composer global r...
Since taking over the Support Director role at Commerce Guys, I’ve had quite a laundry list of things to do to improve this already rolling...
It has been a rough couple of weeks. First there was Shellshock, then AWS rebooting all instances because of a vulnerability in t...
On October 15, 2014, the Drupal Security Team released Drupal 7.32 to remedy a severe SQL injection vulnerability in core. Platform.sh took...
Commerce Guys, the creators behind Drupal Commerce and Platform.sh, announces a strategic partnership with Wunderkraut, the leading Eu...
Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thursday, September 25, 2014, for immediate release Commerce Guys, creators of Drupal Commerce, and SensioLabs, the c...
Platform.sh is a one-stop solution offering a new paradigm in collaborative web development and live hosting London, U.K., September 23, 2...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform-removes-developer-overhead
Version 1.1.0 has been released. Many new features are now available. Here are some of the new commands: project:clean: clean one or mo...
Platform.sh is a new Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Commerce Guys, a software company with offices in London, Paris, and Michigan. Pla...
https://platform.sh/blog/platform-removes-developer-overhead
Commerce Guys, creators of Drupal Commerce, announces the launch of Platform.sh, a powerful continuous delivery cloud hosting solution...
This is the promise of Platform.sh. Based on the Amazon cloud, this PaaS in container should surpass the agility of virtualization. Commer...
One of the most exciting features of Platform.sh is its ability to use Drush makefiles to rapidly prototype sites. By default, new projec...