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  • 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?

  • Off to a Better Neos Release Process

    The technical side of the Neos release process is a wild mixture of automated and manual tasks. Some areas are properly documented and some are just known to the elders of the tribe. In fact, I was probably the one, who has a broad overview of the process and tools… until this week.

  • 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.