For many in the developer community, being a lifelong learner is an overarching goal that influences many of the resolutions we set at the beginning of each year. This makes sense because developers function in an environment that continually evolves, encompassing the technology tools, trends, methodologies, languages and frameworks that gain popularity in the industry and therefore become essential to learn.
Too much traffic can crash a website. I learned that hard lesson relatively early in my web development career. Web teams recoil in horror when they realize their own success has crashed their site. Remember when Coinbase spent millions of dollars on a Super Bowl commercial that successfully drove traffic to their site and app? Their infrastructure got run over.
Google and Yahoo Mail will require email domain authentication in place to accept emails beginning in February 2024. To prevent your emails from being rejected, add domain authentication this winter.
Customers with access to Pantheon's Front-End Sites can now opt-in to a faster build pipeline. I'm excited and I've already opted in for our Documentation website, docs.pantheon.io, which is built in Gatsby and runs on Front-End Sites.
Pantheon customers using Front-End Sites in the Pantheon dashboard have likely noticed a new selection of starter kits when creating a site. Most recently, we added a WordPress + Next.js combination.
Pantheon has increased the PHP memory limit for Performance and Elite plans. PHP memory is essential for running your site’s software smoothly and efficiently. By increasing the memory limit, we're making sure that your websites can handle more complex tasks, process data faster and provide an even better user experience.
Yes! You got what you wanted. You have a new job where you are in charge of the website. And that means you get to make all the decisions about how to run website operations or WebOps.
Well, like it or not, three decades into the World Wide Web, it's rare (and not necessarily desirable) to start from scratch. Whether you're a digital marketer, a developer or an IT director, having authority to lead the future direction of your site comes with the responsibility for past decisions.
Semantic versioning is widely used, and, for the most part, well understood, even by those who have not read the reference documentation on semver.org. The most important characteristic of a SemVer version is that the major version number is always incremented whenever any breaking changes are introduced, signaling clients that code modifications may be needed when updating to this version.