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PHP UK Conference 2017

PHP UK Conference 2017

Frederick and I (Hannes) went to PHP UK last week! I was invited to speak again, for the second year in a row. After attending in 2015, this was my third time that I attended this conference. Here’s our recap of this year’s event: Speakers dinner and pre-conference...

Basic understanding of text search in elasticsearch

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 format optimized for search and allow for very fast lookups, yielding fast search results. Not understanding how these inverted indices are being used in text...

PHP Conference Brasil 2016

PHP Conference Brasil 2016

Last week I attended the PHP Conference Brasil for the first time. It was awesome and I’m going to try to cover some of the best parts of it (IMHO) here. Before we start, it’s worth saying that they named the conference rooms after well known community members...

A bird's eye view on API development

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 overview on some best practices, conventions and nifty ways people have done stuff before, this post has you covered. We won’t go in much...

Introduction to domain driven design

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 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...

Concurrent HTTP requests without opening too many connections

Concurrent HTTP requests without opening too many connections

I’ve been performing a talk on PSR-7 at PHP meetups and conferences. In that talk I demo the use of Guzzle to perform concurrent HTTP requests. Now what happens if you need to perform a large number of concurrent requests? If you don’t control the number of requests...

How to build faceted search with facet counters using Elasticsearch

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 is followed by a counter which indicates how many results will be shown when you apply that filter. Those counters inform the user about their...

Commands, events, global functions and testing

Commands, events, global functions and testing

The other day I was listening to the FullStackRadio episode 34 which is about dealing with dependencies in Active Record models. This is a very interesting topic and they suggest a few solutions for it. I liked the suggestions and I tried to implement it differently (first try and second...

Otto: First Impressions

Otto: First Impressions

A new tool called Otto came out recently. It’s a tool from Hashicorp. At the project homepage we can see the headline “meet the successor to Vagrant”. I know most of you are familiarized with Vagrant, but for those that are not: Vagrant is a tool to manage virtual...

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