freistil IT

How to deploy to freistilbox from a monorepo

Just a little git magic

Earlier today, I gave a talk at DrupalCamp Scotland about the many advantages of a monorepo over the traditional “multirepo” approach of creating a separate version control repository for…

How DevOps creates value for web developers and their clients

Collaboration beats Complexity

Every web developer eventually finds themselves in the situation that a client complains about bad website performance. This is an important issue…

freistilbox adds support for Cache Tags

High performance without sacrificing freshness

A Varnish proxy cache speeds up content delivery by orders of magnitude and has been part of our managed hosting platform since we started in 2010. By…

How our new edge routers make your website both faster and more secure

Spoiler: Free Let’s Encrypt certificates, 10 Gbit/s and HTTP/2

Over the last two weeks, we’ve started rolling out a new generation of edge…

The DIRECT framework for status updates in remote teams

freistilbox protects websites with a Web Application Firewall

Better web security without any additional effort or cost

If you’re a freistilbox customer, you know our slogan: “Work efficiently. Sleep peacefully.” Today…

Turning “Working Out Loud” to 11: Live coding on Twitch

Streaming my work while it’s in progress

In my post “Working out loud doesn’t mean being noisy”, I’ve laid out how we at freistil IT make sure everyone on our distributed team is on…

Learning in a distributed team: Books

Why we maintain a virtual company library

Working Out Loud doesn’t mean being noisy

“Working out loud” is a funny way to describe how people in distributed teams communicate their work, share where they make progress, where they’re stuck, what they experience. That we’re remote from each other doesn’t mean we’re a bunch of hermits. Working…