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...
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications, and it is most of the time treated as a simple task. “Just query using LIKE and you’re good to go”. Well, while the...
At work, I’m currently modernizing a legacy project without composer into an application with less code and thus fewer bugs. The first composer package I required was an application container to add Dependency Injection to the project. The container I used is called orno/di. I bootstrapped the container...
A lot of shiny things around the Laravel world that I would like to talk about, so I chose the new CommandBus that Laravel 5 brings by default. To start I’d like to say that it’s pretty damn cool. Command-Oriented Architecture I’m not gonna explain in detail...