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  • New in Beach: Instance Scaling

    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

  • New in Beach: Automatic deployments

    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!

  • 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.