Marji Cermak

Marji is a co-founder and the CTO at Morpht, specialising in DevOps, the ELK stack, Docker, CI integrations, automated testing, security and developer workflow – with Drupal being the centre of his attention.

Projects

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GovFlix is Morpht's proof that GovCMS SaaS can deliver personalised recommendations, semantic search and an AI chatbot, with no personal data collected.
GBRMPA outlook report
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Morpht audited and enhanced the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2024 website before launch, improving accessibility, performance and SEO on GovCMS SaaS.
TAG case study
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Morpht connected NSW Trustee and Guardian's CRM, booking portal, Google Maps and Drupal, so pop-up service locations publish and expire automatically.

Articles

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At DrupalSouth Community Day 2025, Marji Cermak shared a practical and grounded walkthrough of how visual regression testing, powered by BackstopJS, can prevent regressions long before they appear in production.
Visual regressions testing - Backstop JS
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This guide explains how to automate your Cypress tests for a Drupal site using GitHub Actions. We’ll cover setting up a full CI environment, connecting a MySQL database, running the Drupal server, and executing end-to-end Cypress tests - all inside GitHub’s cloud runners. You'll learn practical tips to speed up builds with caching and securely handle environment configurations.
Cypress and CI
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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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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.
GovCMS Session Slide
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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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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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Have you heard about Logstash and always wanted to test it out? This is your perfect chance to start!
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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.
Privacy and Device Fingerprinting
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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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