Dev Improving performance: caching remote requests Posted by Konstantin Kovshenin On the modern interconnected web, displaying content on a website often involves talking to third-party integrations. From open job positions pulled from hiring software to videos from digital asset management… Read more
Dev How WordPress and Altis handle scheduled tasks Posted by Ryan McCue Altis runs WordPress at scale for high-traffic and enterprise clients around the world. Our customers run lots of scheduled and one-off tasks, and we’ve fixed wp-cron to work at scale… Read more
Dev How we stopped a large-scale DDoS attack Posted by Wisdom Hambolu As a cloud hosting provider for high-traffic sites, security and availability are among our highest priorities. The biggest threat to both comes from malicious traffic, usually DDoS attacks. These attacks… Read more
Dev Step-by-Step: Incident Management Workflow Set-Up Posted by Ryan McCue Every organization, big and small, has to deal with what happens when something goes wrong. From small companies with bespoke workflows all the way up to enterprises with ITSM processes… Read more
Dev Core Web Vitals for WordPress in 2022: What Marketers Need to Know Posted by Corey Brown When compared to the deep and storied SEO history, the notion of Core Web Vitals is relatively new to the website optimization game. In short, Core Web Vitals allow companies… Read more
Dev Supporting Apple Silicon with Altis DXP Posted by Joe Hoyle One year ago Apple released their first computer using their ARM-based Apple M1 processors to much fanfare. With macOS being such a popular choice for developers (and more so WordPress… Read more
Dev Docker in Docker: Simplifying Altis Code Development Posted by Joe Hoyle From the beginning, Altis has tried to make local development workflows simple and powerful. From the very first version, we shipped two full local development environments: one based off the… Read more
