While extensively testing our Boundary setup, we realized that SSH sessions got terminated after about 60 seconds of inactivity. Of course, this is far from ideal so we had to figure out the problem and then fix it.

In a recent project, we dealt with 2 DDEV instances — 2 applications that need to communicate with each other or, more specifically, exchange files.

While preparing a new server for a Magento merchant running Debian 12, I realized that the cron package is no longer shipped with Debian. It is still installable, but the default way of running cron jobs seems to be via systemd.

Hashicorp Nomad is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator that helps organizations reduce operational overhead and maximize infrastructure usage. We've been using Nomad to run our internal workloads since about 2018.

On August 29th, the PHP meetup Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar is meeting again to discuss all the things PHP.

Sometimes, you need to patch your project files until a bugfix is shipped to the upstream repository. cweagans/composer-patches is a Composer package that automates applying patches during the Composer install procedure.

2 years ago, I wrote in another blog post that Windows Terminal is one of my favorite and most used tools after migrating to Windows and WSL2. And even today, it is still the same. Windows Terminal is usually the first tool I start after logging into my Windows box.

On the 20th of September, the PHP Developer Day Conference organized by my friends of the PHP Usergroup Dresden will happen again.

HashiCorp Boundary provides access to applications and critical systems with fine-grained authorizations without managing credentials or exposing your network internals.

Since mid of 2022, we've been using Docusaurus as blogging platform. In general, we are happy Docusaurus users, although it comes with a few limitations due to the nature of a static site generator.