Andy Potanin

A robust PaaS for a Node.js, WordPress, and PHP application deployment that is focused on the GitHub workflow. The platform was created to be a hosting solution that puts the workflow first, making it one of the first hosting platforms that can handle the entire CI process.

This platform predates Kubernetes but is very similar in many ways. However, many things that Kubernetes does not provide, our platform handles very well, most notably a native caching and proxying layer.

The platform is a self-healing network of CoreOS machines that are moving production and staging containers around the data center with zero-downtime due to a status-aware state-of-the-art proxy, powered by a tightly coupled HAProxy, Varnish, and Node.js proxy layer.

Containers are provisioned automatically when new GitHub branches are created and retired when a branch is removed. Developers can SSH or SFTP into any running environment using their GitHub credentials.

The stack provisions CloudFront distributions for each application and handles invalidation requests automatically. Meanwhile, the data layer is handled by client-specific Percona clusters with a Memcached-based object-caching.

A San Francisco-based company that is changing the real estate scene, BoxMLS runs a highly distributed network of Node.js microservices with a rock-solid continuous integration process. Millions of records are stored in an optimized Elasticsearch cluster with tasks and jobs being distributed via RabbitMQ.

BoxMLS service monitors a number of multiple listing services (MLS) for data changes, normalizes and standardizes real estate data, and can send change notifications to subscribers even faster than MLS serverless.

A WordPress plugin that helps make WordPress sites operate more like proper "twelve-factor" applications by moving media assets to Google Cloud Storage Bucket, used as a backing service, allowing for WordPress sites to be migrated and scaled horizontally without having to migrate the media files. The integration is entirely seamless with WordPress being unaware that the actual files are stored on a remote bucket.

· Wordpress.org/plugins/wp-stateless
· Github.com/wpCloud/wp-stateless

A CLI utility that allows developers to easily provision a Docker container for any locally cloned Git directory simply by running "git docker start" from the directory root. The utility automatically abstracts the Docker-run arguments to start a container immediately with the Git directory being volume-mounted to the container which allows the developer to continue doing their work with all the necessary services running inside of their container.

Developers could override default container settings by modifying simplified options in the Git config file. Although this method was very useful and reliable, we later depreciated it in lieu of our more robust GitHub-driven Rabbit CI Container Platform.

This was one of our first experiments with Docker that actually ran Docker inside Docker; we did this to compartmentalize the client environments so that they could then be migrated and redeployed as a single package, with Docker containers being packaged inside the main Docker image.

I wanted to mention it because it's worth mentioning failures and things that didn't end up working out but that you learned a lot from.

A hosted Node.js service that builds WordPress plugins and themes on each GitHub commit for specified branches, assuming the tests have been passed.

This allows users of distributed WordPress products to enable pre-release updates that are handled by the native WordPress update functionality.

The API emulates the WordPress.org responses by letting WordPress treat each GitHub commit as an updated version of the distributed product.

A cutting-edge brokerage based out of Durham, NC has a native-feeling React.js front-end powered by the WordPress API. The application platform runs in a distributed Docker cluster and is backed by a Percona Cluster for the data layer, augmented by Elasticsearch.

The application consumes MLS changes in real-time, analyzes each listing's data, and constantly generates unique landing pages to deliver market updates to the web faster than any competitor.