From our SaaS audits
What we find inside SaaS companies
Patterns from the technical due diligences we run for investors and boards.
Engineering
How we improved our PWA score by 53 points in 4 hours
A week ago Hannes and I attended PHPUK in London (You can read all about it here). We saw a lot of great talks and
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
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
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
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
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
Thread carefully
As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if
Set Blackfire to the rain
If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways
Managing data flow on the client-side
I like to think of client-side applications as empty shells that get populated with data and where the source of that data can be
Webpack your bags
Last updated: December 2020 By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack. If you haven’t looked
*AwareInterfaces: simple interfaces with getter and setter
Sometimes you see simple interfaces with a getter and a setter for a specific type of object. Some examples are league/event‘s EmitterAwareInterface and
Why You Should Avoid Over-Abstracting
Some time ago I started working on an existing project, so I read the documentation before diving in. At the top of the contributing.md