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Platform.sh consolidates its management team with appointment of Ori Pekelman and Fabien Potencier as CSO and CPO

A major player in European cloud, created in 2015 with presence in Europe and the United States, Platform.sh is entering a new growth stage. With a team of more than 300 employees and 150 more to be added in 2022, Platform.sh is developing and consolidating its management team. Ori Pekelman, co-founder and previously Chief Product Officer (CPO), passes the torch to Fabien Potencier and becomes Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). In 2021, Platform.sh acquired Fabien Potencier's company Blackfire.io to consolidate its position as a leading platform for the management of web app fleets-making this move a logical next step.

The secret to managing multiple websites

Forrester Research interviewed digital leaders at enterprise organizations and found that, on average, they were maintaining 268 customer-facing websites and applications. As the number of websites you manage continues to grow, so do the number of challenges in managing it. Often the websites are designed by different teams, are built using different languages and frameworks, and run on different hosting solutions with different DevOps tools and workflows.

PaaS: a better alternative to Kubernetes

Today’s organizations face major challenges in effectively deploying and managing their online services, applications, and websites. In recent years, with interest in infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker surging, container orchestration solutions have emerged as a core technology to help overcome challenges and move to a more modern approach.

Deploy Friday: E84 How WeWeb rapidly incorporated user feedback into their product

WeWeb.io is a web application builder that enables the development and deployment of interactive sites, without the need to write code. You can import existing front-end components, connect or create databases, and deploy on hyperscale infrastructure all from their web interface. The company got started as a YCombinator graduate, and have quickly developed the product, proven their market, and begun to scale.

Measuring the success of a deployment with GitHub actions

Last week, we took a look at how shareable activities - specifically the link made available to a particular activity’s logs in the management console - could be surfaced as a part of a GitHub integration using GitHub actions. It was a nice bit of fun playing around with GitHub actions for the first time, and it let me make something new and useful for my team’s work. But I caught a little bit of the curiosity bug.

Share your failures with robots: surfacing activities with GitHub actions

In our previous announcement, we announced that activities on Upsun were now shareable. If you need to send a member of our support team something fishy going on in your build hook, or get help from another member of your team about a database migration taking longer than expected, you can send them to the exact logline you need help with.

PHP 8.1 lays new ground on Upsun

Every year, the PHP foundation releases a new version of PHP that includes updated features for users. These new releases offer a sweet way to kick off every holiday season for developers and application makers (like me). Just days after its official release, we made PHP 8.1 available for all projects on our Grid plans. Now, you can take advantage of the long-awaited PHP 8.1 features on Upsun.

Share your failures, fix them faster with shareable activities

When you’re working with a Continuous Delivery workflow, you rely on building and deploying your websites in such a way that any improvements can be released into production any time. Identifying and fixing failures quickly is key to enabling rapid development cycles. But what happens when you’re looking into a failed build step, with no clue as to how to address it? You can now share links to specific lines within the activity logs.

Deploy Friday: E83 Why is typescript taking over the world?

If 15% of all JavaScript bugs can be detected by TypeScript, what's holding you back from using it? This week's DeployFriday is an expert panel who will discuss the benefits of TypeScript, including interesting new developments like the rise in popularity of Deno, a runtime for TypeScript that could replace Node.js on your next project.