Christian Stocker

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Speeding up Composer based deployments on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Some of our applications are deployed to Amazaon Elastic Beanstalk. They are based on PHP, Symfony and of course use composer for downloading their dependencies. This can take a while,ā€¦

libvips adapter for PHP Imagine

The VIPS image processing system is a very fast, multi-threaded image processing library with low memory needs. And it really is pretty fast, the perfect thing for rokka and we'll beā€¦

Introducing rokka stack expressions

Stacks in rokka were already a powerful way to abstract away the actual definition of how images should be rendered. It frees up the frontend implementation of knowing what's the bestā€¦

Compressing a transparent PNG like a JPEG with rokka got even easier

We took the technique of ā€œsimulatingā€ alpha channels in JPEGs with SVG one step further and made it even easier to use with rokka. Now you just have to set the jpgā€¦

How to compress a transparent PNG like a JPEG with rokka

Inspired by this blog post by Peter Hrynkow, we implemented some new features to rokka to provide a solution to his question ā€œWouldn't it be great if you could get the compression of aā€¦

Compare and convert HEIF, JPEG and WebP images with rokka

TL;DR Go to compare.rokka.io/_compare and compare the output of the HEIF, JPEG and WebP formats. Even upload your own pictures. All done with rokka. Long version Apple produced quiteā€¦

rokka got some new features

Rokka ā€“ our image storage and delivery service, got quite some new features lately, thanks also to feedback from our users. Here's a list of the visible stuff we did. Brandnew this wā€¦

No nginx basic auth with either network or cookie set

For an internal tool, we'd like to allow access if you either coming from one of our office networks or you have a certain cookie set. If both are not satisfied, just show the usualā€¦

PHP 7.0.0 for OS X and CloudFoundry

Update: Since 7.0.0 is officially out, we updated our binaries as well with the final release. PHP 7.0 is very very near, if no showstoppers show up during the current Releaseā€¦
Christian Stocker
Software Developer, Co-Founder