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  • Semantic Versioning and version number formats

    In an automated build and deployment pipeline you deal a lot with version numbers. At Flownative, we generally follow the rules of Semantic Versioning, since it's a widely-used standard.

    One of the benefits of using such a standard is, that many tools play well together. There are also regular expressions you can use to check your own made up version numbers. So, since there is a standard, and your tool claims to support it, everything should be clear, right?

  • 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.

  • Neos Conference 2019

    This year the Neos Conference moved to Dresden–and what seemed hardly possible became reality: It was a better conference than ever. As usual the talks, location and spirit were outstanding. Still this year was a bit different…

    For me the biggest part of that difference was in the people.

    An awesome community! 🚀

  • 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?