Ymir Report #73 ā Slow May & WordCamp Europe
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Heya! Ymir was a bit more in the back seat in May as I focused on consulting work. This is more important as I'm still losing customers. Ymir won't be a full-time endeavour any time soon. I still want to do reports every two weeks. That said, I might skip here and there if there's not much to talk about. Not my ideal scenario, but I'm running a marathon so I need to adjust the pace if I have to. It's also WordCamp Europe next week! I'll be there if you want to say hi! PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. I've been monitoring the activity log and making a few fixes. There's been close to 1,000 log entries made in the last month. I'm excited about how it's working right now. Work has started on the dashboard side to display the information. I'm hoping I can get it done this month. I also have a customer who might need RDS Proxy. So support for that might come soon! š MARKETING I actually got accepted to WP Campus to speak, but I realized I couldn't go in person this year. š« They do hybrid, but I really didn't want to waste the networking opportunity. It's a real bummer, as I would have really liked to go. Still waiting to do some case studies. It's hard to get people to sit down to do them š WordCamp Europe is next week. We'll see what networking opportunities I have there. It's always a good time anyhow! BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Business continues to suffer. I'm down to 30 subscribers, which is where I was in March last year. I've also lost my only "Carl-as-a-Service" customer, so that's more lost income. Overall, I still feel good about the business. I really wish I could work on it full time. Serverless is a great technology that removes a lot of the burden of managing infrastructure. I also know that it's on some hosting companies' radar. That said, there are a lot of challenges to using it with WordPress. The more I work with customers, the more obvious it is. This makes it unlikely that Ymir will ever be a product with a lot of customers. That's why I take a really long-term view on the technology. I think more and more of the PHP ecosystem will adopt it. This will put some pressure on WordPress to make itself easier to use with it. That's why I keep saying I run a marathon šāāļø Carl |
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Fall is almost here! August has been super busy with a lot of work going on behind the scenes. I'm happy to say that Ymir now supports SQS queues. š„³ The feature is live and documented in the configuration reference and change log. There isn't much else to do with it for now. I'm not adding SQS support for WordPress yet, so this is really for Laravel support....
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO If you're in the summer hemisphere, I hope you're enjoying your summer (or your winter down there! š ) I've had an amazing summer with lots of friends visiting. It's also been very busy with consulting work and Ymir! Laravel support continues to progress. I think I'm finally done with most of the refactoring of the Laravel app. I've begun working on supporting...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO It's been a busy month for me with Ymir and consulting! The most exciting thing is that Ymir sponsored its first WordCamp! š„³ It was a cool milestone for me and I need to put it on the open dashboard when I have a moment. Laravel support is progressing at a good pace. I've wrapped up the refactoring of the deployment code. It was a huge undertaking and involved...