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...
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...
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...