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Iterate faster with Improved Cancelable Activities

Just the other day I was working on a side project. As we sometimes tend to do, I began on the production branch thinking to myself, “I’ll move this to the feature branch before I push”. Of course, as we tend to do, I forgot that I was working from the production branch and git push’ed—triggering a production deployment. I’d have loved to be able to abort that deployment at that moment.

Centralized user management has arrived at Upsun

Securely managing the people who have access and permissions to each of your applications can get very confusing, very fast for administrators. That’s why we’re delighted to be introducing centralized user management for all Upsun users which was designed to solve this exact problem. Ready to find out more? The answers are just one play button away in our demo video below.

Observability from Development to Production with Platform.sh Observability

With Platform.sh and Blackfire.io monitor, profile and test your application even before it is released in production. Get actionable insights to improve your code rather than spend time figuring out what’s wrong. Ensure optimal performance and user experience for your web applications.

5 considerations for choosing a modern PaaS

Keeping your website or app up-to-date with the latest tools, frameworks, and security compliance is important for maintaining a successful online presence. That’s why when it comes to web infrastructure, you need to follow today’s absolute best practices, so you can deliver the best possible digital experiences to your audiences. Here are five major ways you can ensure you’re running a state-of-the-art PaaS.

Infrastructure metrics expanded to longer time frames

Understanding your systems’ status is essential for ensuring the reliability and stability of your applications and services. Without full awareness of what’s going on within your infrastructure, it can be difficult to manage solvable issues and to achieve reachable goals. Besides, it wouldn’t make much sense to run an app or service such as an e-store while ignoring what’s actually happening with it. How can you make any decisions that way?

Upsun is always one step ahead: Announcing PostgreSQL 15, Python 3.11, and Ruby 3.2 for our users

As a developer, it’s important to stay up-to-date with the latest programming languages and updates. But this is no easy task with the fast-paced nature of our techy industry - so we thought we’d do some of the work for you! We’re excited to announce the release of the latest versions of Python, PostgreSQL, and Ruby which our users can already benefit from via our platform.

NOAH 2022 Zurich: You Don't Need Another Server

NOAH 2022 Zurich: Keynote by Leah Goldfarb, Environmental Impact Officer at Platform.sh. Climate change and IT, scaling sustainably. Get an overview of climate change, explore how to quantitatively reduce your carbon footprint in the cloud, and explore what actionable information is needed by the client. The ICT sector contributes ~4% of global greenhouse gas emissions – this is more than global aviation.

Power-up your local development with DDEV

Have you ever had to set up and/or maintain a local development environment using Docker that mirrors your production environment as much as possible? Setting-up and supporting such a docker-based local environment is no easy feat! Common problems include: performance issues, broken dependencies, broken relationships between your services and uncontrolled updates of your docker images, among many other issues. So, the question is, what can we do about that?