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  • Choosing a secure Docker base image

    When you are looking for a secure Docker base image, what are you looking for excactly?

    At Flownative, we run a lot of tools and applications in Docker containers – most prominently Flownative Beach. Early on, we decided to not rely on off-the-shelf images for PHP, Redis and all the other components we need, because we wanted to know what we are running and not just hope that image maintainers will keep an eye on security issues.

  • MariaDB Cluster Incident

    Last Saturday we faced our biggest operations incident with Flownative Beach so far: A MariaDB Galera Cluster failed and only came up again in a degraded state.

    This caused a loss of data from the last three days for 5 websites (as far as we know) and a downtime of about 60 minutes for 62 Beach instances. Among the affected sites were neos.io and flownative.com.

  • Golden Neos Award 2019 for Flownative Beach

    Flownative is not a web agency taking a lead on typical projects like creating new Neos websites. We usually work well in the background providing guidance, code and knowledge. But Flownative Beach is a project, we did take a lead on – we invested more than 3.000 hours of thinking and coding before we opened our platform to the broad public.

    So, this year, we thought: why not hand in Beach for the Neos Award?

  • New in Beach: Password Protection for Instance Frontend

    Beach is great for keeping your client in the loop about the progress of her project. Since everything is automated, it's easy to deploy a new feature – even if it's just a new button – as soon as it is ready. And because you want to launch a bunch of features at once, your are not deploying to production yet, but use a dedicated staging instance.

  • PHP 7.3.0 Released

    As promised by the PHP release team, PHP 7.3.0 was released on schedule as a nice present for St Nicolas' Day. I have been testing the release candidates with Neos and Flow during the last couple of weeks. How did it go?

    What’s New In PHP 7.3?