Bram
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Software engineer
from Belgium 🇧🇪

Growing up in the small town of Tienen is not easy, folks. But somehow Bram struggled through and became a top-notch software engineer.

He is constantly thinking about solutions to help a product remain stable or to enable easy additions of new features or improvements of existing ones. Factoid: he has an identical twin brother, who could easily pass for him on a blue Monday morning.

What's your favourite family tradition?
We usually visit my grandparents at Christmas and on birthdays for coffee and pie.

Which app on your phone or laptop would you label as a must-have for everyone?
Alfred instead of Spotlight: using this third-party productivity and search app has become second nature to me. Spotify for music. iTerm for programming things.

About Bram

Base: Landen (BE)
Studies: Digital Design and Development, Howest Kortrijk
Passions: Building computers, cycling, movies (The Prestige, 2006)

Expertises

Design patterns
Reviewing code
Elasticsearch
PHP
CQRS
Event Sourcing

Articles by Bram

Automating malware scanning on uploaded files

Engineering

Secrets and credentials

Infrastructure and hosting

Implementing a malware scan for file uploads using ClamAV on DigitalOcean, this post details setting up a pragmatic solution despite infrastructure limitations. It covers the initial approach, technical setup, challenges, and potential improvements for a secure file-handling system.

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The command pattern in Laravel

Engineering

Laravel

Technical Tutorials

This post delves into the Command Bus pattern, highlighting its use in software architectures and Laravel implementation. It covers commands as user actions, command handlers, and the Command Bus for execution, emphasizing the pattern's role in simplifying and maintaining code structure and logic.

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Value objects vs DTOs

Engineering

Code quality and design

Technical Tutorials

Value objects are a common occurrence in domain driven design but are they always the best choice? In this article we’ll dive into a real situation where we consider the usage of a data transfer object.

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Why defining a product vision is crucial in ensuring you are building the right things.

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About Bram

Expertises

Articles by Bram

Automating malware scanning on uploaded files

The command pattern in Laravel

Value objects vs DTOs

Why defining a product vision is crucial in ensuring you are building the right things.

Why is operational documentation more important than you think

Why it’s worth spending time on writing out tickets

Pusher alternatives for local development with Laravel Broadcasting

Adding GitHub annotations with PHP-CS-Fixer

The easiest production-ready image to run your Laravel application

How to assist your product marketing team as a software engineer

Running PHPUnit with PHPStorm

Performance tips for Laravel

Improving Docker performance for macOS

Structuring your labels for maximum efficiency in a Laravel application

Building an SDK with PHP, part 3: Making it testable

Building an SDK with PHP, part 2: Making it configurable

Building an SDK with PHP: Part 1

Help, I’m creating a file upload

Communicating about change is hard. We’re making it easy.

Why your engineers shouldn’t launch your features

Catching bugs early with static analysis

Why product marketing is more important in a tech company than you think

Managing data flow on the client-side

ChangeHub

Some of Bram's colleagues

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Geoffrey

Pierre

Alexandros

Peter

William

Charlotte

Yannick

Emma

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