Zane Ashby
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Defence in Depth
May 5, 2021
A Web Application Firewall (from here on out known as a WAF) is a piece of software or hardware that provides a layer of protection for web applications (websites) on the internet. -
Our stack at Springtimesoft Consulting
Dec 13, 2018
This part can vary a lot depending on the project, however, our typical stack consists of Linux, Git, Docker, Nginx, PHP, and MySQL. This is often combined with Redis, RabbitMQ, Solr/Elasticsearch, Postfix as support. When in a load-balanced environment we often make use of Amazon’s S3 for file storage. This is all supplemented with the odd homegrown tool or script written in Python, Ruby, Golang or Rust. -
Our infrastructure at Springtimesoft Consulting
Nov 29, 2018
Our servers all live in the cloud, a mixture of Digital Ocean and Amazon’s AWS depending on the project requirements. We use Linux heavily (mainly Ubuntu), and this is mirrored in our development environments, which are built around Docker, for quick repeatable environments. Some of our older projects still use Vagrant and VirtualBox. -
Frameworks we use at Springtimesoft Consulting
Oct 9, 2018
Backend We encourage using the best tool for the job, for heavy e-commerce projects this generally boils down to Magento, though for shops that don’t need all of the heavy Magento features, we have our own in-house solution built for the New Zealand e-commerce market called Shopalicious (built on the Symfony framework). -
Terraform State with DigitalOcean
Mar 14, 2016
Terraform.io is a helpful tool aimed at moving your infrastructure configuration into code. -
Integrating Raygun into Magento
Jun 9, 2014
Integrating Raygun.io into Magento is about as straightforward as any other PHP project (using Raygun4PHP, but there are a few gotcha’s to be aware of.