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Security Group IP addresses

Infrastructure (AWS) VPC

When adding IP addresses or CIDR blocks to VPC security groups - make sure you're using the priva...

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The special Lightsail VPC

Infrastructure (AWS) VPC

Normally when you use Lightsail, you can't connect to other AWS resources from your Lightsail ser...

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Application Load Balancer costs

Infrastructure (AWS) EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

Although the pricing for ALBs is ~$18/month (before accounting for traffic), keep in mind that th...

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WebSockets protocol with CloudFront

Infrastructure (AWS) CloudFront

While CloudFront natively supports websockets, there is one major pitfall you can end up running ...

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CloudFront response timeouts

Infrastructure (AWS) CloudFront

If you're performing a particularly long operation (e.g. the user submitted an AJAX request to pe...

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BunnyCDN

Third-party service providers Bunny

Homepage https://bunny.net/cdn/ What is it? A CDN provider (Content Delivery Network). CDNs ar...

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Node.js

Tech stack Frameworks & Runtime Environments

Homepage https://nodejs.org/en What is it? A runtime environment for running JavaScript as bac...

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LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP)

Tech stack Frameworks & Runtime Environments

Homepage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle) What is it? A common bundle of f...

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Bash

Tech stack Languages

Homepage https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ What is it? A low-level scripting language for Lin...

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Python

Tech stack Languages

Homepage https://www.python.org/ What is it? A high-level scripting language. Why did we choo...

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SQL (MariaDB)

Tech stack Languages

Homepage https://mariadb.org/ What is it? A language for querying relational databases. SQL ha...

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HTML, CSS & JavaScript

Tech stack Languages

Homepage https://www.w3.org/standards/history/html52/ https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/#css https://e...

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GitHub

Tech stack Build, dependency and code management

Homepage https://github.com/ What is it? A version control manager; effectively it's a cloud s...

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flow-php-server

Third-party libraries Backend libraries

Homepage https://github.com/flowjs/flow-php-server What is it? The partner library to the fron...

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getID3

Third-party libraries Backend libraries

Homepage https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3 What is it? A PHP library for parsing media f...

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HTMLPurifier

Third-party libraries Backend libraries

Homepage https://htmlpurifier.org/ What is it? A heavyweight library for sanitizing strings th...

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aws-sdk-php

Third-party libraries Backend libraries

Homepage https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php What is it? Amazon's official SDK (Software Develo...

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FFmpeg

Third-party libraries Backend libraries

Homepage https://ffmpeg.org/  What is it? An open-source library for processing and transformi...

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BaconQrCode

Third-party libraries Backend libraries

Homepage https://github.com/Bacon/BaconQrCode What is it? An open-source library for transform...

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LogManager

Code Standards: Frontend Frontend Library: Manager classes

Purpose The main purpose of the LogManager class is to initialise the loglevel library, and give...

Updated 1 year ago by Ant