Kelvin Jones
kelvinj
Co-founder | Bright Machine Ltd
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  • Markdown

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    We use Markdown primarily for documentation and other forms of writing.

  • SQLite

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    For smaller internal tools we build that requires easy local storage.

  • Git

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    To manage all of the code under our control.

    Fork > Clone > PR > Commit > Merge… beautiful.

  • GitHub

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    For hosting our public git repos and helping us contribute to open source projects.

  • Bitbucket

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    For hostingour private git repos.

  • Laravel

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    The best PHP framework right now, intuitive and growing up quickly.

    We use Laravel in the outer layer of our Clean Architecture codebases, whereby the domain model does not rely on the framework as a whole.

  • Vagrant

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    Runs our development environment, not yet our production environment.

  • Apache HTTP Server

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    Server majority of our web traffic.

  • Amazon EC2

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    For hosting and scaling our infrastructure based on demand.

  • Amazon S3

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    For storing every ephemeral asset.

  • Amazon CloudFront

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    For those sites that have crazy mad spikes in traffic.

  • Amazon Route 53

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    For managing the critical parts of our DNS infrastructure.

  • Amazon SES

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    Sending transactional emails, such as reminders, contact form notifications, confirmations …etc.

  • CloudFlare

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    Great for performance and security. Now offering free SSL for modern browsers, how could we not love CF?

  • Jelastic

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    Host the majority of our websites. Great pricing, and a great tech model.

  • PhpStorm

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    The best PHP editor available. We really don't know how we managed to do anything before using this fantastic tool.

  • Sentry

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    Exception logging and notifications.

  • Pingdom

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    For making sure everything is up, and telling us when it's not. We tested a few services and pingdom is still the quickest to recognise downtime.

  • Zendesk

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    For supporting our customers.

  • Trello

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    Used collaborative management of simple tasks / projects.

  • Intercom

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    Used by our clients to track what their users are doing, and for proactive support.

  • Packagist

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    Managing the releases of our open source contributions. Also good for finding new packages.

  • Codeship

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    Automated testing and deployment of our projects.

  • Google Drive

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    Collaborative writing.

  • G Suite

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    Company emails, sites for wiki and customer help guides.