It’s safe to say that programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet’s beginnings. If you’ve ever created a Frontpage website or battled with Dreamweaver and Flash applications you know we’ve traveled a long way to get where we are now, and all along...
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 a much broader view of Hexagonal Architecture than was originally proposed by its author Alistar Cockburn. This view often mixes Hexagonal Architecture with other architectures...
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.
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...
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...
As an author of (open source) packages, I think you have the responsibility to protect the bundle size of your package consumer. When you publish a package that exports a whole range of modules (for example lodash, ramda, date-fns…) you want to make sure the package is exported in such...