Save the date: Evolution of TC 2021 

Join us at the Evolution of TC 2021 virtual conference for our talk A Complete Docs as Code Workflow — A Case Study of the platformOS Developer Portal. In this session, our Director of Documentation, Diana Lakatos shows you how we produce and manage content, use plain text formats, a style guide and templates, track issues, and review and edit contributions from a fully remote team and community for their UKTC Award winning developer portal — all through the real-life example of a complete docs as code workflow. 

Date: June 11, 2021 (Sunday) 11:00 CET 

Find the full conference program here.

Articles

• NEW The 6 Pitfalls of Turnkey Marketplace Solutions You Can Avoid by Building on platformOS: CobbleWeb recently published an article titled 6 ways turnkey software solutions can kill your marketplace startup, where they outlined pitfalls concealed in off-the-shelf and plug-and-play marketplace solutions based on feedback from startups who hit a dead end after choosing the wrong technology. This article describes our take on all the pain points their article explored.

Documentation 

Content production  

• UPDATED Copying an Instance - added warning (copying a module automatically copies billing costs associated with the copied module)
• IN PROGRESS Add a Requirements section to Get Started: We are working on a new section for the Get Started guide where we will list some links to great resources for developers to get started on the basics and best practices. If you found some documentation, courses, or videos that helped you get started with the technologies required for platformOS development, please add them in this ticket. Thank you!
  

Development 

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note Apr 6, 2021 — Blank external_ids export, AVIF, and other updates

• NEW allow blank external_ids export
• NEW add AVIF to possible image format
• NEW allow to access context.constants in background tag
• NEW allow to raise 500 for any filter/GraphQL error via liquid_raise_mode in app/config.yml
• FIXED background workers not refreshing cache properly (partials, translations)