In Traefik providers are infrastructure components (e.g. container engines, cloud providers, or key-value stores) that can be queried in order to find relevant information about the routing configuration.

Internally we develop our own tools, that we use as CLI. To make it easier to distribute and use them, we create standalone binaries. But often the files are huge.

So let's see how we can make them smaller without losing any functionality.

Sulu CMS is quite flexible out-of-the-box. For example, content properties can be marked as mandatory or optional. By utilizing the jexl syntax, you can even enable or disable properties based on certain conditions.

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.

In a few projects, we sometimes had the problem, that invalid JSON files were provided by the customer and not checked for errors. To prevent this, we searched for the smallest possible solution.