At TYPO3camp Berlin 2026 I talked about how I run coding agents in parallel across nine repositories with herdr. It is one way of doing it, not the way, and most of what made it work were a few fairly boring rules.
I built the same website — same content, same editorial tasks — in five different content management systems (TYPO3, Strapi, Pimcore, Storyblok, Payload) and gave a talk about it at TYPO3 Developer Days 2026. Slides and live demos are public; here is the writeup.
shippy backup produces a ZIP with a database dump and shared files; shippy gitlab:upload pushes it to a package registry. Wired into a scheduled GitLab CI pipeline that becomes an automated nightly off-server backup — and the same ZIP restores straight into DDEV for local development against real production data.
Shippy is a single Go binary that deploys Composer-based PHP projects over SSH with zero-downtime, atomic releases. Real .shippy.yaml configs for TYPO3 v14 and Pimcore, the eight-step deploy process, and the bootstrap gotchas that only show up on a genuinely empty server.