Gradually migrating between mail providers in Laravel
Migrate between two email providers in a Laravel project with ease of mind while maintaining control.
Architecture
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Why a microservice-based architecture isn't a holy grail
Microservices are a very popular architectural approach — maybe too popular! Here's why it might not be ideal for your organization.
How a CTO makes technology decisions
It’s time to build a new product. Some people within the organization have championed individual native applications built in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. Others recommend a cross-platform approach, preferring React Native. And a growing number of engineers want to use Flutter, a newer technology. How does...
Google Workspace SSO and automated user provisioning
One of the client projects I work on has larger, enterprise customers. Because of this, I needed to create a way for their users to sign into our application using single sign-on (SSO). To do that, we needed to automatically provision users in our system. This is something I wasn’...
Modern front-end monorepos — Part 2: running scripts
In the previous article, we set up a monorepo project with 2 applications and a package. We also enabled Yarn workspaces to manage the dependencies and linking of the workspaces. One inconvenience so far was having to start 2 separate terminal windows to run the applications. This isn’t a...
Modern front-end monorepos — Part 1: managing dependencies and sharing code
I’ve really learned to love a good monorepo setup, a repository that contains multiple packages and/or applications. Being able to make changes across applications or packages in 1 pull request (PR), having the option to centralize and reuse code over applications, and unifying documentation and processes greatly simplifies...
Improving performance and reliability of client's core business component using a simple running total
A client project I work on required some processing, scheduled nightly at 2am. I’m a curious creature, by nature, so I was eager to learn what keeps the queues busy for up to 30 minutes in the middle of the night. It must have been something important! The business...
Merging 4 codebases with help of Rector
The set up When developing software, you sometimes come up with ideas that in the end don’t really work out. Depending on the idea and on the time spent finding out it’s a bad idea, it can be challenging to turn back the changes. One of those ideas...
Effectively using Facades and Hexagonal Architecture to separate bounded contexts
Separating your bounded contexts A challenge when implementing bounded contexts is managing the dependencies between them. We always aim to make bounded contexts as independent as possible, but making them completely independent is impossible and unwanted. Software tends to be useful only when the different parts talk to each other....