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What we learned A/B testing job listing text and why you should do it too

As a hiring manager at Manifold, I want to make sure my job listings are as inclusive as possible, so we can find the best people who will be successful here and add to our culture. And as a product…

Launch readiness with Prefab.cloud feature flags

Getting ready to launch a new feature can be nerve-wracking. You want to make sure your users have a good experience and actually use the new feature that your team has put countless hours into…

Extend your developer toolbelt with a suite of utility APIs— Prefab.cloud

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to constantly adding new and useful services. We help developers find, organize and connect the best services to their applications. With that in mind, we’re excited to…

Strongly Typed

The term strongly typed is one that many readers here will recognize as pertinent to programming. It describes a category of programming languages where programs can only build and run if their code…

CSS Puzzles: a mentorship program for better styling

Manifold’s mentorship program provides opportunities for mentees to learn from mentors over a three month period. The relationship doesn’t imply relative seniority between the mentor and mentee, but…

Cyber Manifold — Our first Cyber Monday Online Hackathon

This year Manifold celebrated Black Friday and Cyber Monday with a series of coupons to try out services on the Manifold Marketplace, as well as an online hackathon called Cyber Manifold. We were…

How to scale a Laravel application with Memcache

Want to learn how to create a Laravel application that is ready to scale? In this tutorial we’ll explore how to create your Laravel application, hook it up to a Manifold project, and finally learn…

Using Redis Streams for Time Series

Redis is often thought of as a “data structure server”, providing a network interface to a few simple data structure primitives. Streams are the first major new general-purpose data structure since…

PHP Frameworks are Difficult to Choose

PHP is an enjoyable language to write with. It can be the best of worlds or the worst. This is because it gives you many different ways to solve each problem you run into. Depending on the amount of…

How to Accelerate User Growth and Acquire Accurate User Data with OAuth.io

Users are the lifeblood of web services, and growing users is paramount to the sustenance of the web services. Find out how you can accelerate user growth by implementing social connect buttons in 5…

How to get started with logging in Kubernetes so you can get some Holiday rest

Kubernetes makes it easy to manage containers at scale. It also introduces complexity in the number of moving parts; containers, backend services, and even nodes change constantly. When the pods are…

Leverage Search Templates in Elasticsearch

Tools like Heroku or Amazon Lambda make it easy to ship changes to your code, but what about fine-tuning your Elasticsearch search queries? Perhaps you want to quickly adjust the boost, or the fields…

Introduction to Message Queuing and RabbitMQ

Message queuing makes it possible for applications to communicate asynchronously, by sending messages to each other via a queue. A message queue provides a temporary storage between the sender and…

So, You’re Ready for the Holidays — Is Your Email?

Making an email stand out in the inbox is difficult enough, but with everyone competing for the same inbox real estate as your brand around the holidays that challenge skyrockets. Before you cave in…

Get festive with Manifold’s 12 days of cloud services ❄️

With the countdown to the holidays underway, we thought it would be fun to turn the spotlight on some of the services on our Marketplace you maybe haven’t seen yet. Each of the next 12 weekdays, we…

$ manifold add — human Guillaume

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Announcing Manifold 2.0

3x the services, an all-new discovery experience, dashboard refresh and a streamlined developer experience make Manifold the easiest way to build cloud native applications. The ecosystem of managed…

$ manifold add — human Maricris

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Manifold introduces configuration management and custom resource templates

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to helping developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. In a cloud native world, we use a mix of both fully managed, and self-hosted…

How to Integrate Ziggeo’s Video API With A Simple web app

Ziggeo is an API that helps you very quickly give the users on your app the ability to record videos. Ziggeo takes care of the video recording, video storage, and video playback. With their flexible…

Build a Smile Bot Using Ziggeo’s Video API & OpenCV for Node.js

What do you get when you put together a simple computer vision and machine learning library and an easy-to-use video API? A fun, and easy-to-implement smile bot! Watch below to learn how we built a…

Getting Started with Ziggeo

Whether you’re thinking of adding a video feature into your app or simply experimenting with video APIs, you’ll want to give Ziggeo a try. Ziggeo’s award-winning video APIs packed with server-side…

Capture, curate and manage videos — Award-Winning Video service Ziggeo joins the Manifold…

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to constantly adding new and useful services. We help developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. With that in mind, we’re excited to…

Manifold for Teams: Share your whole stack, on any cloud, with one workflow

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to helping developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. We recognize that developers are naturally collaborative and need a way to…

ChatOps and SMS — Reaching out beyond the ether

Ever get a page from your system alerting tools on the ferry home from work? Wouldn’t it be nice to simply text back “restart the pod” and keep on boating home? In this post, we’ll explain why you…

PyTill: A Python Package for Till Mobile

Building SMS and Voice applications is hard, Till Mobile is on a mission to make that easy by providing a simple interface for building SMS and Voice applications. In order to make this even easier…

Getting started with Till + Electron on Manifold

If you want to integrate text messaging into an application, there’s a service for that! Till is a fully featured SMS micro service that supports basic text and voice messaging, the ability to…

Communication just got easier — Two-way SMS and voice service Till joins Manifold

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to constantly adding new and useful services. We help developers find, organize and connect the best services to their applications. With that in mind, we’re excited to…

Add any service to your PHP app with Manifold’s Laravel package

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to helping developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. We recognize that developers need efficient workflows, which means making sure…

Manifold Blogcast 002: The Future of Kubernetes

Welcome to episode #2 of our blogcast. A blogcast is the blend of blog +‎ podcast. You can watch our Zoom call on Youtube, just listen on Soundcloud or read about it here on Medium. Jelmer: Yeah. So…

Ditch your noisy, hard-to-use logs with Timber on Manifold

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to constantly adding new and useful services. We help developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. With that in mind, we’re excited to…

How to Integrate Timber.io Into a Simple Web App

In this video you’ll not only see how I integrate Timber.io into one of my Manifold projects called VidMail, you’ll also see the benefits of using their logging system right away! It’s helpful…

Machine Learning Observability with Timber.io

Logging for machine learning is important. It provides observability into your data processing, model training, evaluation, and artifact persistence. But it’s fraught with questions: which logs are…

Easy Logging with Timber.io & Manifold for Phoenix & Elixir

Learn how to introduce aggregated searchable logging into a Phoenix Elixir application with Timber.io and Manifold

Take your cloud services to any platform with the Manifold CLI

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to helping developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. We recognize that developers need efficient workflows, which means making sure…

Introducing Heighliner

Back in March, we wrote about how we moved our legacy infrastructure over to Kubernetes. We had applications running on AWS, Hyper.sh, Heroku and Netlify. The aim of this migration was to move all…

Keep your cluster secrets up to date with Manifold + Kubernetes

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to helping developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. We recognize that developers need efficient workflows, which means making sure…

Deploy Any Resource with Manifold + Terraform

At Manifold, we’re dedicated to helping developers find, organize, and connect the best services to their applications. We recognize that developers need efficient workflows, which means making sure…

Modeling System Resource Usage for Predictive Scheduling

As an Insight Data Science Fellow, I consulted with Manifold for a project using machine learning and neural networks to model and predict network usage. Manifold is a company that offers startups…

Jumanji! Adopting GameDays at Manifold

Manifold is using GameDays to share knowledge and find gaps in our production support. Learn how we're doing it, so you can too!

Setting and Resetting Expectations

Engineers, designers, product managers, marketers, administrators, and company leaders all rely on one another — they have expectations of one another. Giving, receiving, and negotiating those…

Manifold Enters the Iron Age

Long before serverless and microservices were buzzwords, the backbone of modern cloud architectures were made of Iron. Iron is trusted by developers everywhere: CNN uses IronMQ to make sure breaking…

Boxer: an encryption story

At Manifold, we take security seriously. We store sensitive information, credentials, so we’ve architected Manifold from the ground up with an encryption system in place. We called this system Boxer…

Getting started with Manifold

Manifold is the marketplace for independent developer services. A place for you to find, organize, and connect the best cloud services directly to your team’s workflow, under a single account, with…

Manifold Blogcast 001: Should designers learn container orchestration?

Welcome to episode #1 of our blogcast. A blogcast is the blend of blog +‎ podcast. The blogcast is something new we are trying out, so let us know what you think. We’re giving you the option on how…

How Does Product Work with Engineering at Manifold?

Different companies, product teams, and people will have a different process to create a seamless transition from product to engineering. At Manifold, we’ve iterated toward a process that keeps…