Phish.net Technologies

Phish.net is made possible by an all-volunteer technology team and a continuously evolving modern web stack.

The site design and source code is authored by Adam Scheinberg, with significant contributions from Kyle Brett, Ben Heller, Jess Allen, Clif Molina, Pete Skewes-Cox, and Stephen Blackstone.

Application Stack

Phish.net is primarily built in PHP, with Smarty templates, Composer-managed dependencies, and an Active Record model layer backed by MySQL. The production database runs on Google Cloud SQL, with a read replica to power the v5 API.

Application containers are built on Linux and run PHP 8.5 to serve requests via Apache, Caddy, and FrankenPHP. We use Memcached for in-memory caching and Manticore for search. Media and file storage are backed by Google Cloud Storage.

Infrastructure

Phish.net runs on Google Cloud Platform. Docker images are built by Cloud Build, stored in Artifact Registry, and deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine. Terraform manages cloud infrastructure, and Helm renders Kubernetes services, deployments, ingress rules, cron jobs, and supporting resources.

Production traffic is routed through Kubernetes ingress and Google Cloud load balancing with Cloudflare caching at the edge.

Frontend

The frontend uses Bootstrap, jQuery, RequireJS, Handlebars, and Sass. We use Bun as a JavaScript runtime and package manager when we can.

Development and Operations

Git and GitHub are our revision control and collaboration tools. We chat chomp on Slack all day long.

"Fort" fonts used on this site are © 2012 by Jeremy Mickel and are used under license from MCKL and Village Type & Design, LLC. "Tungsten" fonts are © 2004, 2012 by Hoefler & Frere-Jones and are used under license from Hoefler & Company. "Convergence" and "Bree Serif" fonts are provided by Google Fonts/Type Together SRO under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Font Awesome is also used in portions of the site.

Contributing

If you know and love some of the technologies we've mentioned above and would like to donate your time to keep this site running smoothly, drop us a line!