Marji Cermak

Marji is a co-founder and the chief systems administrator for Morpht, specialising in DevOps, Ansible, the ELK stack, Docker, CI integrations and developer workflow – with Drupal being the centre of his attention.

Marji has over 20 years experience working as a programmer, web developer and as a systems administrator. He started life as a C++ and PHP programmer and then moved on to work as a programmer processing real-time financial data and structured data on Linux. Since moving to Australia in 2004 Marji has developed very strong system administration and DevOps skills working for Telstra Bigpond and other smaller ISPs. Marji caught the Drupal bug in 2010 after building an ecommerce site and attending DrupalCon London 2011.

Qualifications

  • Masters in Computer Science
  • Certified Scrum master
Marji Cermak – Morpht Director
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Projects

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Pfizer

A case study into the work Morpht has done supporting Pfizer. The development web stack built for Pfizer will allow them to quickly instantiate development machines for facilitating collaboration from numerous Drupal web developers.

Articles

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Nightly CI hygiene pays off

The Morpht CI pipeline caught a recent vulnerability in Drupal core which led to the problem promptly being fixed.
Beer poured from clean pipelines
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Tips and tricks for working with GovCMS

Marji Cermak shares tips and tricks for working with GovCMS, the website management system built by the Australian government on Drupal and hosted on AWS.
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Redis makes websites happy

Running Redis on a Drupal site usually makes sense, but edge cases may need addressing, especially when working with different tools or hosting infrastructures. Here is how we updated a customer's site to a later version of Redis and addressed a few glitches along the way.
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Fear not, know your docker

Drupal Developers these days use Docker daily (Lando, ahoy, GovCMS). But what is happening under the hood might be a bit of a mystery for some.
Fear not
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Drupal and Logstash

Have you heard about Logstash and always wanted to test it out? This is your perfect chance to start!
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Privacy and Device Fingerprinting

While reading DevOps news to keep Morpht in-line with the current best practices, I stumbled upon a paper called "FPDetective: Dusting the Web for Fingerprinters", covering a study performed by KU Leuven researches in Belgium. The team put together a web crawler called FPDetective and has crawled the million most popular websites of the Internet, detecting fingerprinting.
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Morpht Provision alpha release

Morpht Provision is an online application which allows Drupal developers to easily deploy servers to the cloud in a number of configurations including LAMP, LEMP, Solr and MySQL. The site acts as a front end to Puppet configurations, allowing configurations to be easily rolled out to servers in the cloud.
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