DevOps

How we work, play, learn, socialize and interact with the world continues to evolve rapidly. The trend has only accelerated since COVID-19 locked us all down in 2020.

Small businesses often don't consider customer data policy as their priority. But with 43% of cyber attacks targeting small businesses, one thing is clear: protecting and controlling data is critical. 

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security requirements created to ensure that companies that store and process credit card information maintain a safe environment and protect the data they are entrusted with. The PCI DSS is managed and administered by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). This independent body was launched in September 2006 to improve account security by American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, and Visa. 

Secured Sockets Lock (SSL) certificates are the talk of the cyber security world these days. They have taken the internet by storm. From a small online retail store to massive financial institutions, from a website owner to a blog writer, everyone needs an SSL certificate to ensure the security of data exchanged over their site.

Have you ever thought about how many web apps you use every day? Both for personal or business use? It is astounding to think that in December 2021, 75,800 android apps were released through the Google Play Store, with around 30,000 iOS apps in the same period. That is a serious amount of apps to release to the market. 

In the fast-paced digital world we live in, speed is everything. For businesses, this is particularly important when it comes to their website's landing page. Slow loading times can be a major issue and can deter potential customers from staying on the site. In fact, research has shown that the average person will wait only around three seconds for a page to load before they move on to another site. That's why businesses must optimize their landing page for speed. Here are some of the most common issues that can affect your landing page's loading speed and some tips on fixing them. 

It's no secret that selecting the correct content management system (CMS) is crucial to increasing your revenue and keeping current. Even still, according to W3 Techs, 40% of websites aren't utilizing a known CMS, and while not every business requires a CMS, most companies aiming to scale will eventually require one.

In a highly competitive world, websites are vital for businesses to interact with their customers

Only a few years ago, application development followed a starkly different model than it does today. Traditionally, a development team would write code and fix bugs while communicating with an operations team tasked with building and deploying it towards the production stage, setting up monitoring, operating, and maintaining the infrastructure.

Were often asked what the core team uses as our development stack. We tend to lean towards BYOD strategies. As long as a craftsman is using good tools and loving them, who are we to tell them what is better? That said, one of several apps that is universally loved at PortlandLabs for working on concrete5 is PHPStorm.