Open source software We use a lot of it Nginx, Laravel, Ubuntu, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, Beanstalkd, MySQL, Composer, Glide, Homestead, Flysystem, Fractal, Carbon, PHPUnit, NPM, React, Vue, Java, SSH, Sequel Pro, BackupPC … Basically everything listed in composer.json and package.json
+ 100 packages on Packagist Laravel, Framework agnostic PHP, JavaScript + 6 000 000 downloads in total, growing 700 000 a month We create a lot of it Open source software
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