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Sticking to this year’s speaker theme of inspiration, we wanted to share our highlights for anyone who wasn’t able to attend or who just wanted another taste of the magic.

We are excited to announce the move of our documentation to a new platform - GitBook, and a new residence on the internet at https://docs.lagoon.sh! For the past several years, we’ve hosted our documentation on ReadtheDocs, which has been solid and worked well, but we wanted an upgrade. Enter GitBook.

This year it's more important than ever to participate. So, we’re extra amped to sponsor, attend, and speak at DrupalCon Europe 2020’s virtual conference. 

This open-source DevOps roundtable discussion centered around Lando and Lagoon’s shared aim to be as accessible and easy to use as possible, plus the importance of flexible but solid development workflows, and how the cloud will influence developer workflows in the future.

Career Year Academy is a skills-based education provider serving the Canadian and French markets. Their mission is to bridge the gap between high school, university, and the workplace. Launched in 2018, CYA has been hosting with amazee.io from the beginning. The choice to work with amazee.io was an easy one for their technical leadership, who had had prior experience with us back when we were just getting started. CYA had evaluated other hosting providers but ultimately chose amazee.io for our ability to handle their DevOps needs, which allowed them to focus on building and maintaining their product.

Join amazee.io and Tandem for a roundtable discussion about DevOps best-practices and insights, as well as a demo of the new integration between Lando and Lagoon.

Jonathan has high-quality standards and a keen eye for detail. He’s proud of his ability to think ahead and see the big picture - to detect, understand and take action on IT needs; and he finds it very rewarding being a bridge between technology and people.

Lagoon Insights is an umbrella term for a growing suite of features included in Lagoon that provide additional intelligence for your web applications. The webinar introduced and explained our Problems, Facts, and Metadata functionality.

We’re going to DrupalGov 2020 — an event dedicated to the Australian and New Zealand government sector that’s open to all agencies, vendors, and the wider Drupal community. We’re super excited this year for their first virtual DrupalGov event and to learn about and help grow all things government and Drupal.

amazee.io partnered with Catalyst Cloud for a candid discussion and Q&A with providers across managed services, infrastructure, and application development for examples, strategies, and learnings on successfully migrating government websites to open source and cloud technologies.

amazee.io supports 17 different Smartsheet developers across multiple time zones who deploy to Lagoon daily. When questions arise – big or small – amazee.io is there to respond directly in Smartsheet’s private Slack channel – usually within minutes.

Take control of your application with Lagoon's newest features including vulnerability detection, version tracking, notifications, and more. Learn about Lagoon Insights in our next webinar, happening on October 20th.

We’re going BADCamping — virtually! We’re proud to sponsor BADCamp 2020 and their dedication over the past 13 years to providing the Drupal community with fun, inspiring, and safe opportunities to teach, learn and share together. That’s why this year, we’ll be BADCamping virtually together!

Hacktoberfest is an annual, month-long celebration of open source software, designed to drive participation in open source communities, have fun and get some neat swag! To participate in the festivities, you will need: a GitHub account to be registered at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ to submit 4 Pull Requests to open source projects in the month of October.

We’re a fully-distributed company that lives and breathes open source. As a close-knit team, we collaborate with colleagues in every time-zone to build and maintain the world’s leading open-source hosting platform as well as provide managed services and expert support 24/7 to clients of all shapes and sizes.

As part of our commitment to supporting open government, we’re proud to attend and speak at Drupal GovCon again this year, where digital practitioners across the public sector will congregate to share learnings and best practices. Drupal GovCon 2020 is the largest event in the U.S. Government Drupal community.

Whilst the team has been hard at work on Lagoon 2, we’ve still found time to squeeze out a round of improvements, updates and bugfixes! We’ve also had to push out a quick 1.9.1 release to fix up a couple of unfortunate regressions – thank you so much to our customers and users for helping us to get to the bottom of the issues so quickly!

amazee.io’s CTO and Founder, Michael Schmid, and our Product Lead, Toby Bellwood recently participated in a discussion about Kubernetes and Drupal on Episode 257 of the podcast, Talking Drupal. Chatting with the hosts Stephen Cross, John Picozzi and Nic Laflin the conversation covered a lot of the history and intricacies of running Drupal on Kubernetes.

For governments, moving to the cloud and leveraging open source can offer significant advantages over proprietary, monolithic solutions. But there are also challenges to consider – everything from data sovereignty to choosing the right stack for your use cases. amazee.io is excited to host a panel of experts who will provide insights and clarity around how governments can successfully make the shift to cloud and open source.

Given that Silverstripe is built on PHP, supports Composer and has a similar configuration to Drupal, it has been relatively straightforward to implement Silverstripe CMS on the Lagoon platform. Silverstripe also supports Redis, Solr and Varnish to improve site performance and searchability.