Integrating Elasticsearch with Laravel enhances search capabilities beyond simple LIKE matches. This guide covers Elasticsearch basics, setting up a local environment with Docker, creating a demo application, and implementing Elasticsearch integration using observers and repositories.
As engineers, we want to focus on delivering value to customers. We noticed that a lot of the projects we work on are following agile processes, but in a format that misses the mark. That’s why we started experimenting with how we could bring back the right focus. I’...
PHP is a dynamic language and while this certainly has its benefits, it also means that it’s not uncommon to see errors about calling an undefined method, or an invalid argument count in the logs. What’s even worse is that the application will simply crash when these types...
When managing data, you need to take into account several matters. One of them is concurrency. It happens when multiple people try to simultaneously access some form of data (entities, objects, database records, etc) to either see it or update it. Imagine there is a customers data table and I...
If you’re a developer, odds are most of what you’re looking all day is text and code. Whether it’s in a terminal, editor or webpage, you look at text, it’s our main medium of work. So to make life more bearable and to ease things up...
Some time ago I came across this article on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog about when founding CEOs need to go. It’s from 2005, but it is still just as relevant now. The main takeaway is that you need differently skilled people at the helm in different...
As our projects grow in complexity, the list of tools they require also grows and remembering how to use all of them (with their different syntaxes) can become cumbersome. On top of that, some tasks require multiple steps and tools to be run sequentially. We can create our own aliases...
Search is one of those life-changing innovations that we started taking for granted. Companies like Google make it seem so easy to search and find whatever you are looking for in a heartbeat. However, it takes a lot of effort and thought to design and build the right search algorithm...
I hate Mondays. The theory is that if you hate Mondays you should change your job. And if you do that but find yourself hating your job again recently after joining a new company, well then it’s time for a new career. I got tripped up during a job...
