Blog: Tech
Migrating To Kubernetes
Quarter 4 2016 saw us embark on the first stage of our migration to the cloud, starting with planning out the migration of our eCommerce websites to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Container Engine. Firstly, a bit of background to our previous infrastructure: Each...
Programmable Infrastructure Vs Infrastructure As Code
Programmable Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code? If you've never heard of these terms, you're probably wondering what the hell they are. There is no competition between the 2 phrases as they both refer to the same concept dependent on which side of the buzz word...
Terminal Velocity – 4 Great Ways To Work With Automatic Expansion In The Shell
With so much getting done in the shell, lots of little shortcuts can all add up to make things quicker in the future. After seeing people doing it the long way round, here’s the first in our series on efficiency hacks. Note that in this series I'm only going to cover...
SSL and PHP Streams – You Are Doing It Wrong
The upcoming PHP 5.6 release brings with it a number of improvements to encrypted PHP streams, both internally and externally. In these articles I will try to cover the most important changes, and how they affect your code. This article will focus on how to get the...
Meet Yaf… What?
At Venditan, we like to keep up with the latest technology to assist us to build fantastic websites for our clients. In January of last year, the stable 2.2.9 release Yaf (Yet Another Framework) was released and we just had to have a play. Yaf is the first PHP MVC...