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It is a false assumption that, just by moving an application to the cloud, it will run faster. While it is much easier to scale an application there, effects from a weak application architecture, massive amounts of database queries or unoptimized storage usage can actually make things slower. When you run your whole application, including database server, key value store and storage, on a single machine, you won't notice many of the performance issues which surface in scalable environments.

Here's a quick update about a new feature which required quite some shifting behind the scenes. Dealing with domains in Beach now becomes really, really easy.

Say, you'd like to use flatwhite.example.com for your Beach instance. Just go to the "Domains" section in the Beach user interface, and add the domain. At any time before or after adding the domain, you switch DNS to the Beach gateway address.

The summer slowly says good-bye here in Northern Germany, which is a great opportunity to work on some more complex features for Beach. Because – let's face it – the hot season with some 30°C and more up here in my rooftop-office only leaves enough brain capacity for manually sorting PDFs by color.

So, today I am very happy to announce a new inconspicuous feature: Instance Scaling!

Neos & Flow – On a Large Scale

How do you write a blog post about a new button? Or, a new switch to be precise? If it wasn't a feature I have longed for quite a while, I wouldn't even consider writing a post. But to all of you happy Beach user out there, here's our TGIF-present: Automatic Deployments!

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 ...