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Concurrent HTTP requests without opening too many connections

Concurrent HTTP requests without opening too many connections

I’ve been performing a talk on PSR-7 at PHP meetups and conferences. In that talk I demo the use of Guzzle to perform concurrent HTTP requests. Now what happens if you need to perform a large number of concurrent requests? If you don’t control the number of requests...

How to build faceted search with facet counters using Elasticsearch

How to build faceted search with facet counters using Elasticsearch

We all know them, search pages which allow you to filter through vast data sets by checking or unchecking filters. In most cases each filter is followed by a counter which indicates how many results will be shown when you apply that filter. Those counters inform the user about their...

Commands, events, global functions and testing

Commands, events, global functions and testing

The other day I was listening to the FullStackRadio episode 34 which is about dealing with dependencies in Active Record models. This is a very interesting topic and they suggest a few solutions for it. I liked the suggestions and I tried to implement it differently (first try and second...

On how to implement a code of conduct

On how to implement a code of conduct

Preface Recently there has been a lot of commotion around code of conducts and if a user group/open-source project should implement them or not. This is not a post about that, we shall not be discussing the ethics or possible political impact this brings with it. We will however...

Otto: First Impressions

Otto: First Impressions

A new tool called Otto came out recently. It’s a tool from Hashicorp. At the project homepage we can see the headline “meet the successor to Vagrant”. I know most of you are familiarized with Vagrant, but for those that are not: Vagrant is a tool to manage virtual...

Thread carefully

Thread carefully

As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntl_fork which had its own issues, and you couldn’t really...

Set Blackfire to the rain

Set Blackfire to the rain

If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways to ease the pain a little: debug bars, putting timers a bit everywhere. Or if you’re courageous like I was for a long time,...

Managing data flow on the client-side

Managing data flow on the client-side

I like to think of client-side applications as empty shells that get populated with data and where the source of that data can be anything: an object in your javascript code, an HTTP request, a JSON file, … Making sure this data flows correctly through your application is one hell of...

Code review

Code review

Reviewing code has been advertised as a great solution for improving code quality in any project. While this is true, the main advantage is in how code reviews change the way you approach your code problems. Any code can be reviewed, but there are some best practices that will make...

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