How one line in a script can save you hours of debugging agony. I recently ran into an issue with a CraftCMS plugin where the plugin worked locally but displayed bizarre behavior (404ing on a certain page) on our staging…
Setting up a continuous integration server can help you down the path of automated deployments, even if you don't have a comprehensive test suite. We use CircleCI for our continuous integration. We set this up even for projects that have…
How do you set the default DNS NS servers for a hosted zone in Route53 using Terraform? Sometimes you want to delegate DNS resolution for a subdomain. This happened recently for one of our clients because a third party provider…
Elasticsearch + Craft makes for a more flexible search experience. For one of our clients, we recently swapped out the default CraftCMS search functionality. We chose to do this because our site needed more flexibility. In particular different types of…
How can you create multiple database users with AWS MariaDB RDS? Not using "grant all", unfortunately. AWS RDS lets you run a database with minimal operational overhead. Backups, maintenance and operating system upgrades are all taken care of by the…
How do you run your migrations and clear your template cache on every deploy to Fortrabbit? We've been pretty happy with Fortrabbit as a hosting service for CraftCMS. It has a nice git based workflow, where you can push to…
CraftCMS migrations help you move configuration and content between different environments, allowing you to make sure that changes propagate correctly. One of my favorite part of CraftCMS is migrations. I think they’re unsung heroes of creating a great, maintainable website. (I’m only…
When Google rolled out a massive reorganization of its ad tech units (DoubleClick, AdWords and Analytics among them) into a single framework called Google Marketing Platform in July 2018, ad tech types were quick to talk about “GMP” like your…
I recently finished reading "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems". This book, also known as the SRE book, is full of thought-provoking and useful advice, even for teams running systems smaller than Google's infrastructure (which is pretty much…
We are using Craft CMS for a client website that is too complicated for Wordpress and not complex enough for Drupal. One of the great things about Craft is that they've thought about how to move configuration from development to production.…
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