Acquia, My Drupal Startup

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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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  1. Symfony

    The Symfony PHP framework

    Symfony is a PHP framework. https://symfony.com/

    It caused much of the internal of Drupal to be re-written. This included how it was extended. With previous major versions you learned about new features and APIs. They followed mostly existing design patterns so it was easy to learn and updates your extensions for. With Symfony you had to learn whole new systems and ways of doing things. It was like learning something entirely new. And, porting extensions to it was far more work and time.

    Also, the updates made Drupal slower while consuming far more system resources for the same thing. This increased costs to operate.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. phpnuke

    PHP-Nuke is a web-based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL.

  4. memos

    An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service. Your thoughts, your data, your control — no tracking, no ads, no subscription fees.

    You might want to also check out memos. Nothing like Drupal or WP, but for saving notes/entries/memos and having a very simple system to make some posts public, some only shared with a small group, and some completely private, it's a very elegant system. https://github.com/usememos/memos

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