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Platform.sh hires Leah Goldfarb as Environmental Impact Officer to oversee greener web hosting strategy

Platform.sh has announced Leah Goldfarb as its new Environmental Impact Officer. In what is the first hire of its kind for the PaaS industry, Goldfarb will oversee the company's greener web hosting strategy as Platform.sh looks to further reduce the digital carbon footprint of its large enterprise clients.

New improvement: global settings in console

At Upsun, we are committed to making your development and deployment experience as smooth and seamless as possible. As part of this effort, we regularly listen to your feedback to see how we can improve things. One of those things: is how complex it can be to configure environment or project settings from the Console. That is why we decided to regroup all settings pages together so that they’re easily accessible from a single location.

Announcing HIPAA compliance for Upsun

If you’ve worked with us before, you know we take security seriously. We take measures necessary to safeguard your sensitive and personally identifiable information and comply with a variety of compliance standards. These include maintaining best security practices and aligning with regulations such as SOC-2, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.

We're increasing the default cron jitter from 5 to 20 minutes

At Upsun, we are committed to making your site perform as best as possible. As part of this commitment, we need to smooth down the system load spikes as much as possible—especially when many crons are triggered at the same time on a particular Grid region. To do so, we are increasing the default cron jitter from five minutes to 20 minutes.

Upcoming improvements: Reducing deployment downtime, improving caching strategy, and pausing crons

At Upsun, we are committed to making your deployment experience as fast and seamless as possible, so that you can continue pushing changes as much as you need, and keep your customers happy. As part of this commitment, we are releasing three new infrastructure improvements, which will greatly improve caching strategy and significantly reduce downtime during deployments.

Upsun announces $140m series D round of funding

Today is a big moment in the Upsun story and a bright day to celebrate in our seven-year history. This latest round of fundraising comes at the perfect time. We’ve already laid the groundwork by providing clients with the most efficient, most powerful management service to build and run web applications at scale. We’re extremely happy with what we have been able to accomplish in previous years. Now, we can dramatically accelerate our plans to build the best cloud platform possible.

The pandemic has indeed caused a massive spike in cybercrime

Recent events of the pandemic have facilitated a rapid implementation of remote working tools, causing an increase in ransomware attacks – businesses suffer from financial and data losses. In order to prevent such attacks, companies must not only educate their employees about best cybersecurity practices but also embed professional security solutions within the internal business processes and systems.

Blackfire's unique Way of Delivering Python binaries

We may not always know what is happening behind the scenes when we add a dependency to our projects. We expect this process to “just work” to carry on building applications. Little we may know about the level of commitment from maintainers and the amount of work needed to have everyone seamlessly use a library. Let’s hop in backstage to discover the unique way Blackfire releases its Python binaries.