It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because something might go wrong that may impact their well-earned weekend. Today, I don’t want to dive too deep into how we can create enough...
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.
PHP is a dynamic language and while this certainly has its benefits, it also means that it’s not uncommon to see errors about calling an undefined method, or an invalid argument count in the logs. What’s even worse is that the application will simply crash when these types...
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...