During a rare visit to our offices, a customer was extremely surprised to find that literally everybody in the office was wearing headphones while doing their work. (Except for me, of course – that would have been rude.) It also struck him that only a few desks were being used, and...
As you may have noticed, we are huge fans of remote working and we never pass on an opportunity to explain the concept to our customers, partners and practically anyone else who is interested. Some would call it preaching, we call it enthusiasm. One of the questions that always pops...
Lately we have been missing the Sense Chrome extension, basically because of the autocompletes when we are writing some Elasticsearch queries, or debugging something. It got blocked on Chrome due to a malware issue. In that post, they mention Kibana has a console with the same functionality that we were...
I didn’t like the code I wrote for a particular feature. It was “notify users when someone comments in a discussion” with these requirements: * Notify discussion author, if not the comment creator * Notify users assigned to the parent model that is associated with the discussion, except: * the discussion author...
A week ago Hannes and I attended PHPUK in London (You can read all about it here). We saw a lot of great talks and met numerous very smart people. Among these was Rowan Merewood, who gave a talk called “Progressive Web Apps in the wild”. He convinced me to...
This article is an update (2017) of the How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch original article from 2015. There is also an updated version of this post (2022): How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch – 2022 edition Searching is an important part of many applications, and it...
Frederick and I (Hannes) went to PHP UK last week! I was invited to speak again, for the second year in a row. After attending in 2015, this was my third time that I attended this conference. Here’s our recap of this year’s event: Speakers dinner and pre-conference...
Elasticsearch gets a lot of its power from how it works with analyzers and inverted indices. These inverted indices store your text data in a format optimized for search and allow for very fast lookups, yielding fast search results. Not understanding how these inverted indices are being used in text...
Last week I attended the PHP Conference Brasil for the first time. It was awesome and I’m going to try to cover some of the best parts of it (IMHO) here. Before we start, it’s worth saying that they named the conference rooms after well known community members...
