If you’ve ever watched a TV show like “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” or similar then you’re probably aware of how important it is to label your food when you store it in a freezer. You might be wondering how this relates to software development? Just like food, forms...
Integrating Elasticsearch with Laravel enhances search capabilities beyond simple LIKE matches. This guide covers Elasticsearch basics, setting up a local environment with Docker, creating a demo application, and implementing Elasticsearch integration using observers and repositories.
When managing data, you need to take into account several matters. One of them is concurrency. It happens when multiple people try to simultaneously access some form of data (entities, objects, database records, etc) to either see it or update it. Imagine there is a customers data table and I...
We have a really good testing culture at madewithlove and, in one of the projects I am working on, we have a decent suite of tests. A big chunk of these tests are Feature Tests. In this article, I’ll describe the process of switching a project’s test suite...
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, seems to be getting quite some attention these days in the container orchestration world. It even got some attention from Docker Inc. itself a while back, despite the fact that they have their own container management tool called Docker Swarm (and it’s as good...
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 version of this post (2022): How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch – 2022 edition Searching is an important part of many applications, and it...
After Laracon US in Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago it was time for Laracon EU this week. For the third time in a row this great conference happened in Amsterdam. Last year I went to the conference and gave a talk at the community day on the day before...
Laravel is awesome. Not just the framework, but its ecosystem. Let me walk you through it and show some of the beauties arround this community. Not just a fullstack framework First of all, I have to say that I don’t participate as much as I want online, but I...
1. The Laravel framework has become very popular, between others, for its simplicity and expressiveness. With the recent release of Laravel v5, most of the core dependencies were updated. The same applies to illuminate/config, which is responsible for containing our app’s configuration. We are often involved in projects...