If you landed here by searching for “02687,” you have found the right place. 02687.com is not a stock ticker, a product code, or a regulatory filing number. It is the home of an independent EdTech engineering platform 鈥?a practitioner-run knowledge base dedicated to building the next generation of open, self-hosted educational infrastructure.
This post explains what 02687.com is, what we cover, and why we chose to build this resource for university IT teams, independent educators, and developers navigating the complex landscape of modern learning technology.
Higher education technology is dominated by two forces pulling in opposite directions. On one side, massive SaaS vendors (Instructure for Canvas, Anthology for Blackboard) charge per-seat licensing fees that scale brutally as enrollment grows. On the other side, open-source platforms like Moodle and Open edX offer genuine flexibility but carry a steep operational learning curve that most university IT departments struggle to climb alone.
The result? Institutions either overpay for locked-in SaaS products, or they deploy open-source platforms poorly 鈥?misconfigured databases, no monitoring, single points of failure 鈥?and blame the software when performance collapses during final exam week.
02687.com exists to close that gap. Every article published here documents a real architecture decision made in a real deployment scenario, with the actual configuration files, the actual failure modes we encountered, and the actual fixes that worked.
Our technical coverage spans four interconnected domains of modern EdTech infrastructure:
The foundation. We cover self-hosting Moodle with Docker Compose, tuning PHP-FPM worker pools for concurrent exam traffic, configuring Redis as a session and course cache, and securing the entire stack behind an Nginx reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt SSL.
If you are setting up a Moodle instance for the first time, start with our step-by-step guide: Installing Moodle on Ubuntu 22.04 with Docker Compose.
For institutions already running Moodle in production who need to handle peak exam loads without crashing, our performance tuning guide is the most direct resource: Moodle Performance Tuning: PHP-FPM Workers, Redis Cache, and OPcache.
We document the full spectrum of identity federation: SAML 2.0 integration with Azure Active Directory for Moodle, Keycloak deployment for campus-wide SSO across multiple applications, and the certificate management edge cases that catch even experienced administrators off-guard.
Related resources:
SCORM was the standard of 2005. In 2026, universities need granular, real-time learning event data 鈥?not aggregated quiz completion percentages. We document xAPI implementation patterns, Learning Record Store (LRS) architecture, Knowledge Graph construction with Neo4j for curriculum mapping, and ETL pipelines for migrating data out of legacy Student Information Systems.
The DevOps layer of EdTech: Python scripts for Canvas LMS REST API automation, serverless plagiarism detection pipelines on AWS Lambda, containerized auto-grading systems with Docker and Celery, and Prometheus + Grafana monitoring stacks tuned specifically for LMS workloads.
Based on the technical depth of our content, the primary audience of the 02687.com platform falls into three groups:
| Audience | What They Get Here |
|---|---|
| University IT Administrators | Production-grade deployment architectures, monitoring dashboards, and disaster recovery configurations for campus LMS infrastructure |
| EdTech Developers | REST API integration patterns, plugin development guides, and Python automation scripts for LMS workflows |
| Independent Educators & Hobbyists | Cost-effective self-hosting strategies, Docker Compose blueprints, and open-source alternatives to expensive SaaS tools |
We favor a set of recurring technical choices across all deployments documented on this platform. These are not dogma 鈥?they are positions formed by hands-on experience:
Self-hosting is not free. The cost savings on licensing fees are real, but they shift the cost to engineering time. A misconfigured Moodle instance is worse than a working SaaS alternative. This is precisely why 02687.com documents the failure modes alongside the success paths 鈥?understanding why a configuration decision matters is more durable knowledge than simply copying a config file.
For institutions with fewer than 500 students and no dedicated IT staff, a managed Moodle hosting provider may genuinely be the right answer. We document that trade-off honestly.
The best entry point into the 02687.com platform depends on where you are in your infrastructure journey:
The 02687.com knowledge base grows with every deployment. If a specific EdTech infrastructure challenge is not yet documented here, it is likely in the pipeline. Our editorial backlog prioritizes topics by real-world deployment frequency 鈥?if you encounter a challenge not yet covered, the contact page is the fastest path to getting it addressed.