Stephan Hochdörfer

GitLab and GitLab CI are crucial for deploying our projects. In our latest Sylius project, we set up an automated CI pipeline for code quality checks and for deploying the Sylius application on the production and staging environment.

I have to admit, I am not the best at editing neon configuration files. I regularly mess that up and then things break. How to fix that? Well, why not lint those files in the CI pipeline?

Yesterday, I attended the HashiDays 2023 Munich event to gain some insights into the latest Hashicorp product development. After speaking at the virtual HashiDays event in 2020, this was my first in-person event organized by the Hashicorp folks, and I was curious about what to expect.

As said before, we are still happy with Docusaurus as our blogging platform. However, Docusaurus being a static page generator, it comes with a few challenges in regard to scheduling and publishing blog posts.

Gally is a next-generation Searchandising Engine designed to easily create an API-first E-Commerce Search Engine for your composable commerce stack.

For a while we've been using DDEV to standardize our docker setup for development and to have a consistent way of interacting with Docker across all our projects (e.g., Magento, Symfony, Sulu, Sylius, API Platform, ...). Since most of our developers are using PHPStorm as their IDE of choice, using the DDEV Tool Integration for IntelliJ IDEA plugin was a natural choice.

The PHP meetup Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar will meet again on the 29th of June 2023 at bitExpert AG in Mannheim, Germany.

One of our merchants wanted to be able to influence the sort order of the product search results in Magento. Thanks to Elasticsuite's flexibility, solving this issue was a trivial task.

One year ago, we switched from our homegrown Sliverstripe blog solution to Docusaurus. Time to look back and see if the move was worth it.

Recently, we've been running into a weird problem. After restarting 2 nodes in our Nomad cluster, we could not properly access GitLab via SSH anymore. Web access was working fine, also cloning via https:// worked, but not via SSH which is what most of our developers use by default.