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Errors don't just happen; they land somewhere. Validation, generic, idempotent ignore, warning log, or Sentry: each routes failure to a different audience. Get the routing wrong and either engineers go blind to real bugs, or state corrupts silently.
Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework
When installing a dependency, we are used to installing a version that adheres to a known public interface and does what it promises. That way
Last week, Elasticsearch organised their first conference dedicated to the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Two days filled with sessions about search, going from in-depth
We have tons of conferences in Brazil related to web technologies. BrazilJS is far the most incredible one, and it relies heavily on JavaScript. Yearly
In PHP we can type hint function arguments since version 5.0. Over the years and with newer versions of PHP the number of possible
My initial plan to write a blogpost every week took a turn for the worse after week #2 when I realized that writing a blogpost
1. The Laravel framework has become very popular, between others, for its simplicity and expressiveness. With the recent release of Laravel v5, most of the
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your
Sunday, the day before the start of my internship, I got a text message from Andreas (CEO) asking me if I wanted to join him
For 6 years in a row now, the PHPBenelux-team organized their annual conference in Antwerp. And yes, madewithlove was present! Dieter and Jonas attended the
A quick tip here, for all PHP developers out there who author packages registered on packagist.org. Add a .gitattributes file in the root of
A lot of shiny things around the Laravel world that I would like to talk about, so I chose the new CommandBus that Laravel 5
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications,
At work, I’m currently modernizing a legacy project without composer into an application with less code and thus fewer bugs. The first composer package
Lately there has been some news around Angular 2.0. There are some odd things about working with Angular 1.3 that I’ve experienced
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