Joel Hughes is SVP of eMedia & Information Technology at Scranton Gillette Communications, a fourth-generation family-owned business-to-business communications company, named by Folio magazine as one of the 40 fastest-growing companies — and an “All Star” in the magazine industry.
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At Pantheon, we do our best to make building, launching and maintaining a Drupal or WordPress site as easy as possible. All sites on our platform get the same PHP and MySQL configurations tuned for their applications. Every site has Varnish sitting out front to provide speed and protection against surging traffic. Our Dev/Test/Live workflow helps ensure only quality code makes it to production. Multidev allows teams to work on new features in isolation. And database backups are very easy to move around between environments.
As Spring rolls forward, it is that time of year again for DrupalCon, which is in Seattle, WA this year. I got the chance to sit down with the longtime Pantheon Hero, Duran Goodyear, founder of Alphex Information Solutions. He shared his thoughts about the event, the community, and Pantheon. Watch the full video and read highlights below.
The way people use the phrase “technical debt” implies that good, tested code is debt free. If you are building a software service this is wrong; every line of custom code you maintain is debt.
To be competitive, software products must continually improve. All of the custom code you’ve written yesterday, rewritten today, and what you’ll write tomorrow -- you will be burdened with maintaining, forever. To build competitive software you must balance this cost when you decide what code gets written, and what gets integrated from upstream.
At Pantheon, we talk a lot about automating updates with testing and orchestrating multiple tools interacting to make a build system. For many folks, this might sound like some kind of mystic art. Literally the stuff of wizards and magic spells. But I am here to tell you, in all reality it is science. Computer science.
I’m happy to announce the release of a supported Command Line Interface (CLI) for the Pantheon platform. It’s free, open-source, built on Drush, and available on GitHub:
https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus
In a nutshell, Terminus allows you to do anything you can in the Pantheon dashboard from a terminal:
The invasion of Ukraine has both united and broken the world in unprecedented ways. The question facing many tech companies today is how to protect the internet and people relying on it for information.
Crippled by international sanctions and blocked from independent media sources, Russia has plunged into economic and digital darkness. With multinational companies leaving Russia at great speed, the public has called on high tech to follow suit and to create what the New Yorker called “a technology desert.”