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Running Kibana with Sense

Running Kibana with Sense

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...

Avoiding Conditionals, an example

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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...

How we improved our PWA score by 53 points in 4 hours

How we improved our PWA score by 53 points in 4 hours

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...

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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...

PHP UK Conference 2017

PHP UK Conference 2017

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...

Basic understanding of text search in elasticsearch

Basic understanding of text search in elasticsearch

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...

PHP Conference Brasil 2016

PHP Conference Brasil 2016

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...

A bird's eye view on API development

A bird's eye view on API development

So an API, that’s just output of some JSON code right? No problem, my framework does that automatically. Or if you just want an overview on some best practices, conventions and nifty ways people have done stuff before, this post has you covered. We won’t go in much...

Introduction to domain driven design

Introduction to domain driven design

As applications grow bigger and bigger, our codebase needs to accommodate for more and more business actions. After a while you will have code that impacts a large amount of business actions without knowing exactly what they are. Changes to that code become more and more stressful. We had long...

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