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  • Beach supports libvips for faster image rendering

    Most Neos websites or Flow applications usually use ImageMagick and GD for rendering smaller versions of photos or previews of other media assets. While these libraries are quite powerful, they need a big amount of memory for processing images. It can easily happen for a Neos page with a lot of thumbnails to consume hundreds of Megabytes of RAM to create the respective image files. When the original assets are rather large or you need to process animated GIFs, you might even need Gigabytes of RAM just for rendering that page.

    Fortunately, Beach now supports libvips, a low-level code lib ...

  • Neos 4.0 and Flow 5.0 running on Beach

    For Neos 4.0 and Flow 5.0 quite some changes were made under the hood. But even though there's a review process in place and changes are usually well tested by members of the Neos Team and the community, a couple of glitches slipped through. This kept everyone from using the new releases right away in a professional hosting environment using Redis …

    A smooth migration path

  • Neos Conference 2018

    The Neos Conference 2018 is over, and it was a blast! Following a sprint and a workshop it was two days packed with great talks, an awesome community and great spirit.

    But to be honest: The Neos Conference is not about the talks (which were excellent), the location (which is hard to beat) or the organisation (which was awesome). It is about the experience of a common understanding and a spirit that is rare.

  • Digital Asset Management in Flow and Neos CMS - Part 1

    Neos has some powerful features under the hood which makes management of media files and documents easy. This post is the first part of a series about asset management in Neos CMS and Flow and explains the base layer of it all, the Flow Resource Management.

  • Workshop at the Neos Conference 2018

    The Neos Conference 2018 in Hamburg is just two weeks away, as is the workshop we are giving on the day before. And tickets are still available!

    On April 13th the Neos Conference 2018 starts and will bring you two days of Neos talks, networking and an all-around great experience. And on the day before, April 12th, we will hold a pre-conference workshop.