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OpenScholar used a customized AWS web hosting stack for Drupal to host their multi-site SaaS solution. To meet their needs Cheppers embedded a skilled DevOps Engineer within their team.

Kubernetes became one of the de facto standards for containerized applications. Many cloud platforms from the smallest to the largest like Scaleway, DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and IBM Cloud now provide managed services for Kubernetes.

The My League Online (MyLO) system was developed by the League of Women Voters of California for use by all Leagues to develop their own websites.

Since the release of Drupal 8 on November 19, 2015, we have been continuously working on moving clients and their sites from Drupal 7 to the latest version. The migration process has, more often than not, proved to be challenging.

As cloud based architectures became more and more popular over the past decade, different organizations are facing different challenges when evaluating the possibility to leverage the managed services offered by various providers.

One of our clients required an image of a map for print. As will be seen on the map, there will be marked places that represent where the company performed surveys.

We were developing our own intranet system when we came across the issue, a security hole. This intranet system, called Intra is a decoupled Drupal site with Vue.js application as the frontend.

In the 20th century, founders had an exact product vision, and based on that, they built an entire product. They formulated a business plan, and within a couple of years, the product was launched. The next step was finding customers.

An extensive tutorial on how to use HashiCorp's go-plugin to extend your own project.

We have multiple air conditioner devices all over the office, but in our corporate culture, we want to automate everything. For example, if everyone left the office from a specific room and the last one forgot to turn off the AC device, who cares? Our system will turn it off for you. The sad news is that we can't do this with these devices. We found an extra attachable device to eliminate this disability. Lucky for us, they have an Android application as well. But, there is no API or any documentation.

We were at Drupal Europe, read how we liked it.

After working with Golang for some time I decided to attend my first ever Golang conference. In the past I attended only local events in Budapest and in Vienna, but I wanted to meet more people from this community. Read my selection of the best sessions during two conference days

An introduction to Kubernetes capabilities with a sample Go distributed face-recognition application.

This blog post aims to demonstrate a relatively tiny subset of the different kinds of things you can use with CloudFormation, the automated provisioning tool for Amazon Web Services.

It's never good to do something that needs to be idempotent by hand. Here's how to configure Nginx with HTTPS using LetsEncrypt and Ansible.

Years ago Cheppers created an Drupal 7 based intranet, to help with various administrative tasks, from worktime to absence management. We've decided to rewrite it using a decoupled architecture instead of porting it directly to Drupal 8 as is. This is our story.

Last year in June, Docker 17.05 was released including a feature that is extremely useful, but is often left unused. What am I talking about? This feature is the Multi-Stage Dockerfile.

A new day begins in the office, located at the heart of Budapest. The reassuring beep of the door buzzer tells me that I’ve clocked in. Today, I’ve decided to come into the office to do some pair programming with a colleague of mine. We needed to solve a nasty AWS issue where DNS

This is the 4th, final part our blogpost series about building Furnace. In this part we'll discuss Unit Testing Furnace and how to work some magic with AWS and Go.

Here is the 3rd part of our blogpost series about building Furnace. This episode is discussing the experimental plugin system of Furnace.

We have recently started a blogpost series about building a mid-sized project in Go with AWS, with unit testing and experimental plugin feature. In this section we will discuss AWS Go SDK. We will also begin to dissect the intricacies of Furnace.

This is the first part of a IV part series which discusses the process of building a mid-sized project in Go with AWS, including unit testing and an experimental plugin feature. In this one we will discuss the AWS services used in the brief and will contain a basic description.13

When the launch of Drupal 8 was just around the corner and the main topic of concern was the status of the issue queue, the Drupal community slowly started murmuring about a topic outside of technical solutions and patches. As a result, a brand new DrupalCon track was introduced.

Are you also always forgetting to run your tests and than swear if your branch is broken? Are you only getting that info after a couple minutes of unit tests? Then this solution might help you.

We received a feature request to allow other modules to modify the data we were saving. As this is not a very well known topic for non-contrib and non-core development, we decided to write a short blogpost about the different approaches in Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.

Today, I would like to write about how to do HTTPS for a website without buying a certificate and setting it up via your DNS provider. Let’s begin.

In 2016, our team worked on a sponsored contrib module, GatherContent. The goal of the project was to recreate the module for Drupal 7 using best practices, and to create a brand new module for Drupal 8.

I was asked to find a way to collect log messages from 100 websites that were running on Drupal (version 7) and make them available for evaluation as one of the last steps of a long-running test suite. Here is one of the ways Drupal logs can be collected into a Kinesis stream.

Machine learning is a powerful method for solving various natural language processing tasks, but collecting the training corpus can be a difficult job.

Dirty words. We all know them. They are inappropriate. In this blog post we concentrate on the issues that one should address before building a system which automatically identifies and categorizes vulgar language in texts.

We at belfry.io believe that comment feeds are an important thing. We want to make them better, and more constructive.

In this part I will talk about creating HTML pages in Confluence using PHP and Confluence REST API.

How we have extracted information from JIRA, how we implemented the logics and processing in the middleware, and then integrated with Confluence, to generate a human digestible report.

This is a follow up to my previous post about doing Google Sign-In in Go, located here. In this post, we will discover what to do with the information retrieved in the first encounter.

We were lucky enough to attend the biggest European Go conference a few weeks ago. Since we have been using Go as our primary tool for almost two years now, we were quite excited to meet with the community.

As part of Design Week Budapest, we had two workshops about Experience Design: what it is, why it’s important and how it’s used.

This is a two part post which explains, with samples, how to do authorization for a web site using Google Authentication OAuth 2.0 services.

Drupal events always fascinate me. They don’t just provide a wonderful environment for learning from each other, to contribute to Drupal together during code sprints, and to meet new people, but they make the community stronger as well.

In our previous post on the topic, we used output formatters to determine how Behat displays test results. Now we continue with exploring our possibilities on what tests to run together with Behat’s scenario selectors.

A few months ago, I decided to port the TCPDF module for Drupal 8. My first thought was that it would be an easy task, but I ran into my first problem early, when I tried to pull the TCPDF library into Drupal.

How the user experience of the Drupal platform be improved and how the CMS itself can be simplified, made easier to understand and easier to use.

There’s been an ongoing discussion during DrupalCons surrounding how to share knowledge between Drupal event organizers about how a camp actually comes together, and what subjects you should cover when starting one.

When creating websites, it can be tricky to find the ideal solution for media management. If you have ever worked on a website where there were countless image styles and videos to manage, you probably already know that choosing the best solution is very challenging.

As a growing company with a strong Drupalist department, we have reached a point when continuous integration and automated testing is necessary to sustain pace, and given the characteristics of Drupal, behavior-driven testing with Behat is a logical candidate.

Global Training Days is an initiative of the Drupal Association organized quarterly in many cities around the globe. The event is a great opportunity to make the attendees familiar with the basics of Drupal, the content management system.

In the first part of this series, we showed you how to perform a very basic migration without any customisation. In this part, we will show you how to modify some fields during migration.

Migrations are becoming a crucial part of Drupal 8, especially in connection with the upcoming Drupal 6 EOL. In this first article, we are going to show you how to quickly migrate your site to Drupal 8.

Cheppers was nominated for the Iroda.hu Office of the Year Award, 2015. The following post was published on irodablog.hu in Hungarian.

Five years after the launch of Drupal 7, we were terribly excited about the launch of Drupal 8 set for November 19 2015. As the release date had been announced a few weeks before, we wanted to join the initiative of the worldwide Drupal 8 celebration.

We live in a world where web services are increasingly complex architectural wonders, spanning multiple different sets of components and precisely performing a wide variety of tasks for millions of users with an incredible, nearly 100% availability...

Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016 will take place on 30-31 January 2016 all over the world. The guide below will give you information about what Drupal sprints are, what the global event is about, what you can expect from the Hungarian sprint, and how you should prepare for it.

This post will focus on exporting and importing site configuration.

This post will focus on our initial work for this project.

On February 9, 2015 the Cheppers team decided to start rebuilding the company’s website with Drupal 8. At the time, Drupal 8’s version was Beta 6 with 50+ critical issues, 10+ upgrade path blockers, and it was potentially going to be about a year before the stable version’s relea

First of all - Happy New Year everyone! 2015 will be a fantastic year and we at Cheppers are ready to kick off! Let's see how we are going to start the year.

What do you do when you need to search in files as well? For a recent project I had to enable users to search the content of attached files mainly in .pdf format. The Apache Solr with Tika seemed to be a good solution.

Today most of the websites have search functionality. With the help of Apache Solr the time spent on waiting for a search result can be radically reduced. In this article we are going to set up a basic searching infrastructure on a *nix-based system.

We are proud to announce that Cheppers has now three Acquia Certified Developers! This Monday Mau, Attila and Andor have all passed the exam held by Acquia, and we are very proud of them.

In the middle of November there was a weekend when it was all about Drupal in Hungary. Cheppers was hosting the Drupal Global Training Day Hungary 2014 and I was one of the core organizers of Drupal Weekend Budapest 2014, so we were concerned by the success of both.

5 team members of our company had the chance to spend 6 amazing days at this year's DrupalCon Europe. Péter Oroszvári CEO, Gergely Csonka CTO, Ákos Tóth developer, Attila Cs. Nagy developer and myself travelled to Amsterdam to meet old friends and get to know new ones.

‘This is the nicest Drupal camp I’ve ever been to.’ These words are quoted from Steve Purkiss, who told this to me on the last Drupalaton night during the cruise party. I think this describes the Drupalaton experience the best - Drupal, summer, fun at the same time.

According to our experience the most usual approach for clients with web development needs is to contact multiple agencies with more or less vague ideas - asking for quotes, and then selecting a choice based on price. This approach is doomed to fail for two reasons.

January 15 2014 Work Party: Give Drupal a Birthday Present: Tackle a D8 Issue! generated a ton of twitter traffic reaching over 100,000.

As you might have already heard, we are sponsoring Drupalaton 2014, which is organized for the second time this year as an international DrupalCamp.

Nowadays many web-frontend developer use Compass framework to easily manage the CSS side of the currently developed project. We at Cheppers use Compass to compile the SASS files in our custom theme projects. If you do too, and you ever ran into an ugly circular gem file depende

450 people, in 39 locations, on 6 continents worked on Drupal contrib and core (on core alone: 2468 comments on 646 Drupal 8 issues) during the Global Sprint Weekend.

Cheppers was involved in two of the 39 Drupal Global Sprint Weekend locations over January 25, 2014 and January 26, 2014.

It is the 13th anniversary of the release of Drupal. People are taking a few hours on Wednesday Jan 15 2014 to tackle a Drupal issue. We will be together on irc in #drupal and #drupal-contribute and also communicating on twitter #DrupalWorkParty

Global Sprint Weekend is a worldwide event you can participate in. Small local sprints in lots of locations, over the same time period: Saturday and Sunday January 25 and 26, 2014.

The Migrate in Core group of people working on Drupal 8 is preparing some meta issues, making doable sub issues, and improving documentation, for: people new to Drupal contribution but not new to PHPUnit, people new to PHPUnit but not new to Drupal contribution.

Media module is the most popular framework for managing files, but the Library browser provided by Media version 7.x-1.x gives us a bucket of images with no filtering options. This makes the image selection pretty time-consuming.

Migrate API is the most versatile module available for moving arbitrary data between Drupal sites of the same, or even different core version. It provides a unified way of handling any data type, and a simple to implement interface for making more elements available.

Apache Solr is an open source search platform that can make search queries much faster. It is surprisingly easy to integrate it with Drupal by using the Search API framework.

With Search API and Facet API it is easy to create facet blocks to narrow the result set of a view or a search. This tutorial covers the basics steps how to do this.

Rules is one of the most sophisticated modules you can find in the drupal sphere. It can be used to build complex and flexible systems that respond to a specific event.