At Clever Cloud we manage most of our own data and when we want to gather a particular information, we open our SQL interpreter and query all the things manually. This somehow worked because most of us are technical but it's not necessary the case anymore. So we want a nice dashboarding solution to make data available in a nicer way. This is how we came upon Metabase.

A couple years ago, I was a developer for a startup which has almost no test coverage. Super enthusiastic me from the past spent a few weeks coding tests, and factories... all that based on the gem FactoryGirl. Two days before I’m satisfied of what I’ve done, they announce that FactoryGirl needs to be upgraded to FactoryBot.

Blockchain technology is a much discussed subject these days, but when you ask someone what it allows them to do regardless of the interaction they have with crypto-currencies, the answer is rather vague. Guillaume Chollier - Utocat CTO has agreed to talk with me about this technology, the perspective and how the Utocat team is using Clever Cloud.

Let’s take a look at the world of the Blockchain, with the help of those who are using it on a daily basis.

The Weekly Platform Update is a series of posts about every impactful changes on Clever Cloud. You'll find the updated parts of Clever Cloud below, to follow fixes, updates, new products and more on a weekly basis.

PostgreSQL 11.1 with TLS, MySQL 8.0.13 and Redis 5.0.3 are now available on Clever Cloud, and they all come with a brand new migration feature.

We have been issuing and automatically installing Let's Encrypt® certificates for a while now. The only manual thing was the trigger of this process. But today, we are glad to announce fully automated Let's Encrypt certificates for everyone!