Our LAMPdev teamleads decided to offer eight interesting test trial tasks for Beetroot Academy students who study on the backend course. Each task has a detailed specification and can be solved by using knowledge from the current course but some additional skills will be fine. Our teamleads will check each test task and help every student in his development. Please use github/gitlab account for coding…
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Scraping in queue using Amazon SQS and supervisord
Some day or other, every PHP programmer is faced with the performance issue caused by a script with a huge loop. If one its operation takes a lot of time and there are thousands of such iterations, then the threat of script execution time lack is more than real. One of the options is to bypass the problem with CRON tool: schedule to execute CRON…
Automating RDS scaling using HAProxy with AWS SDK for PHP
This article is a sequel of Automating EC2 scaling using on-demand and spot instances with AWS SDK for PHP. The system we described there is not perfect for using it as a platform for web application: several EC2 instances are launched from the same AMI but each instance has its own database isolated from others. Here we’re going to use the already existing system and…
Automating EC2 scaling using on-demand and spot instances with AWS SDK for PHP
One of the Amazon Web Services features is to run and manage virtual servers provided by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This service covers most use cases, including the case when your project needs additional resources: then you can simply scale your system capacity with new instances and remove them when they aren’t needed any more. One more great feature of AWS is its…
Creating WP plugin for remote managing Zendesk tickets via Gravity Forms
Zendesk is a great platform for the fast creating your own CRM which can be used to save and process your customers’ feedback as a tickets. So if your company has a website which uses WordPress platform, and you’d like to convert all/one form(s) submissions into a Zendesk ticket, here is a solution we suggest. We are going to develop the plugin for creating and…