When you're frustrated with your work, what do you do? If you’re Katie Sylor-Miller, Frontend Architect at Etsy, you figure out how to fix it.

Then, you share that information with the world. At least this was the impetus for her “Happy Browser, Happy User” presentation at WordSesh 2019. 

Before we can talk about why to use version control it's important to understand what version control is. In it's simplest form, version control is a system that tracks changes to files over time.

Version control is often used by software developers but is useful for anyone who works with files that are updated over time, especially if there are multiple collaborators.

As a Drupal architect I’ve been building web applications for clients for years, starting with sales, working through the technical architecture, and all the way through to the final touches. I build web applications for projects of varied sizes—some have only a couple of stakeholders (like the CTO and CMO), and others touch dozens of departments across an organization, all with varied technical ability.

Thanks to everyone who came to see me and Howard Tyson of Zivtech present our session on ElasticSearch at Drupalcon LA. We decided to nerd out, both doing our slides in code with Bespoke.js and focusing on getting

At Pantheon, website performance is our priority, so when a client asked me to investigate why his site was slow, I decided to document the story to share with all of our users.

As a platform, Pantheon is proud to provide the best development tools along with our lightning fast hosting. As part of that Pantheon provides a free New Relic APM Pro plan for every site on Pantheon, regardless of plan level. New Relic’s best-in-class tools allow developers to pinpoint exactly what’s slowing sites down and track performance over time.

With your New Relic account from Pantheon, you get access to the following New Relic products:

Pantheon often touts version control, namely Git, as one of the tools of successful developers. However, for the many developers out there currently not using Git, I am going to go out on a limb: you probably know about it, have tried it, and are doing just fine without it, thank you very much. Your customers are happy, sites are chugging along, and the last thing you need is a cryptic command-line tool to add complexity and slow your flow.