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Bram
Devries

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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

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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

Tutorial

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

Tutorial

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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