Why a microservice-based architecture isn't a holy grail
Microservices are a very popular architectural approach — maybe too popular! Here's why it might not be ideal for your organization.
Infrastructure
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Why is it good to deploy frequently
Do you deploy every day? Your team probably should. Here's why.
How listening to Treebeard can help you fix performance issues
On one of our projects, users complained about a performance issue. They were experiencing loading spinners and timeouts when using the application. When we evaluated the infrastructural setup, we concluded that we had to change it completely. This was challenging since the application consisted of many moving parts and databases....
Setting up Laravel Horizon in Google Cloud Run
“Wait, what? Cloud Run is serverless!” I hear you shout in confusion as you jump out of your chair. Well, give me a chance to explain because, apparently, this is not something that has been tried before. At least it’s not well documented online, as I am sure your...
Setting up infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform, Laravel Forge and Cloudflare
DigitalOcean | Cloud Infrastructure for DevelopersAn ocean of simple, scalable cloud solutions.Cloud Infrastructure for DevelopersDave McCarthyResearch Vice President, IDC If you’ve used Terraform before and you want to jump to the meat of how to combine Terraform, Forge, and Cloudflare, jump to the paragraph titled “Combining Terraform, Forge, and...
Using an SSH tunnel to connect to your dev MySQL with Docker
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...
The easiest production-ready image to run your Laravel application
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...
Running PHPUnit with PHPStorm
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...
Improving Docker performance for macOS
One of the most important things when starting to work on a project is to set up a local development environment. For me, this should have the following requirements: * Easy to install, preferably a one-click/command solution * Reproducible across multiple host machines, by everyone in the team Very often, our...