This is an overview of the Culture Foundry development process. This process is continuously evolving (so this is a snapshot), but is aimed at creating quality websites and web applications while balancing the needs of our clients for speed. It's…
As they say, in computer science there are two hard problems: naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors. Ba-dum-bum. At Culture Foundry we use caches extensively. Sometimes they are built into the application frameworks. Other times they are…
At Culture Foundry, we have some clients who see intense traffic spikes due to "real world" events. For this scenario, we've written a server-less solution that scales well at a reasonable cost (both in terms of dollars and developer time).…
MODX Revolution is a PHP CMS with tons of functionality out of the box. It also has a lot of flexibility. Like most PHP CMSes, it uses a relational database to store data and puts file uploads on the filesystem.…
We have a client that runs a Drupal 7 site. They wanted to integrate a custom JSON API into the Drupal site. There's already a great post covering a simple read only API endpoint in Drupal 7. I wanted to…
When you have a software system, scaling horizontally by bringing more servers online to help with higher demand gives you more flexibility and lets you build systems that can handle more use. If your compute nodes are stateless then you…
At Culture Foundry we’ve developed a combination of methods to allow unlimited product varieties and product customization far beyond what’s built into the default templates. The Limitations The kinds of customization which Shopify offers by default include properties and product…
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