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Open source vs commercial AI: choosing the right path for your business

This blog is based on a presentation by Guillaume, Field Chief Technology Officer at Upsun, and Robert from Ilwiin Technology during the AI Action Summit. The original French presentation has been translated and edited for clarity and accuracy. The AI field is advancing significantly, presenting organizations with the question: Should they choose open-source or commercial AI models? This choice impacts everything from costs and data privacy to long-term business strategy.

Add Postgres with one YAML line. Deploy in under a minute.

Let’s break down why this matters, and how it can change the way you approach building and running applications. You want database power without getting bogged down in tooling and config. Most of your week should be building features, not hunting for connection strings or maintaining bespoke infra scripts. Developers tell us they just want to code and solve application problems, with minimal platform friction.

WordPress Vanilla vs Composer vs Bedrock - which wins?

WordPress powers over 40% of the web, but not all WordPress installations are created equal. Whether you're a solo developer, managing an agency, or overseeing hundreds of sites, the way you install and manage WordPress can make or break your workflow. In a recent live stream discussion, we dived deep into three popular WordPress installation methods: Vanilla, Composer-based, and Bedrock. Each approach has its merits, but which one should you choose? Let's break down the showdown.

Develop hands-free with Upsun and Claude

Leverage AI coding assistants like Claude to develop your application with Upsun. This video goes through the Upsun development flow from cloning your production environment to testing your new code with read data and merging into production. The core task is to add a "Total Revenue" card to an e-commerce dashboard. We will show how a single, complex natural language prompt can orchestrate the entire development lifecycle.

Your weakness is your superpower Strengths based growth

Too often, we are told to highlight our weaknesses as a means for growth. From job interviews, to performance reviews, to our own self-reflection, we shine the light on what we do poorly. Building our careers isn't about doing everything well - instead, it's about doing what we already know we're good at to the best of our ability, and using the knowledge of our weakness to employ our strengths. Join Mary Thomas to learn why identifying and leaning into our strengths becomes our weakness Superpower.

Transforming Symfony monolith to multi apps A step by step guide

From monolith to multi-app join us as we explore more in this Symfony demo: Once upon a time, great people created a great Symfony demo, to be used as a living code example and help us all learn: Bigfoot. Since then, the DevRel team at Platform.sh has forked this repo and created a really fun escape game to showcase Blackfire. And we thought it would be good to have a dedicated frontend for our game, instead of reusing the Bigfoot design.

The role of empathy in technical writing SymfonyCon 2024

It’s easy to assume that our users are experts when writing documentation. But technical writing without diagrams, code examples, videos, screenshots and more can ostracise a large chunk of users who are simply searching for help when using your product. When writing technical documentation, empathy allows us to imagine ourselves as the reader: a junior developer who just started on the job, a sales manager who needs more information for a client deck, a member of the customer success team helping a client on a video call.

How to monitor and manage front-end observability in Blackfire

In this video, we'll guide you through the process of monitoring and managing your usage of front-end observability features in Blackfire. Learn how to access your Browser usage dashboard to view browser traces collected per environment, track your quota consumption, and understand the concept of spike protection. You'll discover how Blackfire's automatic detection of abnormal traffic spikes protects your monthly quota and ensures continuous data collection.

How to Enable and Configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire

In this video, learn how to enable and configure Front-end Observability in Blackfire. The tutorial covers steps to enable features across multiple environments via the Organization settings / Front-end usage in the Blackfire dashboard. Control front-end observability by enabling or disabling Browser Monitoring and Analytics per environment, using a JavaScript probe and a unique browser key. The video emphasizes the importance of naming transactions and explains how to manually add tracking snippets to HTML for better control.