About a year ago, I wrote about managing your ports with Traefik in your local development environment. That blog post described how to set up the Traefik proxy and route all your traffic to the correct container without having to rely on the ports exposed by your container. This can...
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
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...