Bounded contexts for dummies
Chunking up our code No matter how smart or intelligent we are, when things become too complex, we can no longer keep them in our
Architecture
Building an SDK with PHP: Part 1
Whether you’ve built a private or public-facing API, at some point you or your users are going to want to communicate with it.
12 Factors in the era of containers
The 12factor manifest is a set of guidelines to help us build SaaS applications that can easily be operated and scaled without much effort. It
Hexagonal Architecture demystified
If you try researching “Hexagonal Architecture” these days, you will find a lot of articles and videos that can feel overwhelming because they often include
The hidden complexities of search
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
Why good engineers avoid cool solutions
Engineers love innovation, shiny tools, and creative ways of solving problems. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because we
The Domain-Driven Design fallacy
Most people get to know Domain-Driven Design through the tactical patterns. Concepts like Value Objects, Entities, Aggregates, Repositories and Event Sourcing are all strongly
Kubernetes 101 - explaining the basics while running a Laravel application with Redis and MySQL.
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, seems to be getting quite some attention these days in the container orchestration world. It even got some attention from
The Minimum Viable Product is not so minimum anymore
For the last decade every tech firm and aspiring app developer out there could count on the durability of one crucial structural dynamic in the
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
How to integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch - 2017 edition
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
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
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
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
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