I want to start with a small disclaimer that I don’t fully understand what exactly went wrong and why the things we did fixed the problem. I’m pretty sure I would be able to find out by staring long enough at very complex code, but at some point,...
One of the client projects I work on has larger, enterprise customers. Because of this, I needed to create a way for their users to sign into our application using single sign-on (SSO). To do that, we needed to automatically provision users in our system. This is something I wasn’...
In the previous article, we set up a monorepo project with 2 applications and a package. We also enabled Yarn workspaces to manage the dependencies and linking of the workspaces. One inconvenience so far was having to start 2 separate terminal windows to run the applications. This isn’t a...
I’ve really learned to love a good monorepo setup, a repository that contains multiple packages and/or applications. Being able to make changes across applications or packages in 1 pull request (PR), having the option to centralize and reuse code over applications, and unifying documentation and processes greatly simplifies...
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Docker during our daily development work. It’s still one of the easiest ways to ensure a common working environment when developing locally and avoid the “It works on my machine” arguments. Even Laravel ships with a default Docker-based environment...
When writing tests, I often find myself switching between the IDE and terminal windows to actually run the tests. On projects with very large test suites this would often lead to situations where I’d spend time waiting for all the tests to finish. I’d get distracted with something...
A client project I work on required some processing, scheduled nightly at 2am. I’m a curious creature, by nature, so I was eager to learn what keeps the queues busy for up to 30 minutes in the middle of the night. It must have been something important! The business...
Recently, we were looking into some Laravel PHP8 performance issues we were experiencing on one screen of a web application. This screen would show an aggregation of several statistics across the application and would include things like: * The total number of tickets, grouped by their status (open, closed, …) * The total...
The set up When developing software, you sometimes come up with ideas that in the end don’t really work out. Depending on the idea and on the time spent finding out it’s a bad idea, it can be challenging to turn back the changes. One of those ideas...