Our website is 12 years old and over time we have accured quite a few URL changes. Mainly due to terminlogy changes and SEO restructures. 819 to be exact. They are rewrite rules in a nginx config file. This is a lot of regular expressions…
We have been running containerised apps since early 2014 so in theory, moving to Kubernetes should be easy. The problem is that we currently make use of the –volumes-from docker flag to share volumes between containers of the same app. For example, a common pattern…
I was recently asked about our Tech Stack by someone looking to join the development team. I was about to point them to a previous blog post when I realised it was 4 years old so needs a update… I still consider ourselves as fundamentally…
I really like the way we configure crons in our Yii application – any developer can setup a cron with just a code comment. As example, look at this function header comment that will result in the function being triggered automatically every 3 minutes: /**…
Spyros and Panagiotis recently gave a presentation at a coworking space in Athens (The Cube), at the Docker Athens community meet up, concerning Micro Service implementation and tools / techniques we use in PPH. Topics covered were: What is a micro service architecture Advantages…
With the new PPH website out the door, we have adopted many new technologies within our team. The new PPH site is still built with PHP. We use nginx as a proxy to Apache and running on multiple EC2 instances, with an RDS backend utilising multiple read-replicas. We use…
During your life as a busy developer, you might reach a point were your Git repo is huge and part of it would make sense to move it into a separate repository. It happened to us today in PPH, when we decided to move all…