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Over the last couple of years, this blog has gone stale. I intend to change that and produce more content when I learn something new. This new content will still cover a lot of the things you're used to: software design, architecture, domain-driven design, and distributed systems. What it will most likely not cover anymore is PHP...
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In my ever-lasting battle against anemic domain models I've developed a preference on how to integrate with the external concerns. In this post I'd like to show an alternative, a strategy on how to keep encapsulating behaviour wile interacting with the outside world.
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Event-driven architectures have various styles of communication. In my previous post I described a couple of event types you may see in these kinds of architectures. In this post I'd like to go over a supporting practice that benefits virtually all types of events; the use of message envelopes.
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Event-driven systems come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The obvious commonality is; they all use events to communicate information. These events come in many shapes and sizes, and determining what goes into an event has an immense impact on the design of your system. In this post I'd like to go over three different types...
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Using events in a system is great, but how do you know for sure if you've reliably dispatched your events? The transportation of events needs to be done reliably while maintaining overall system consistency, be it eventual or immediately. In a typical setup, a database is used to store information and queues are used to send messages between...
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On the 13th of January 2022, version 3.0.0 of Flysystem was released. The library ships a couple new methods on the main filesystem and adapter interfaces, making it a breaking change that cause a major version increase.
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This is a question I've received over and over again, a question that does not have a single answer. Sometimes when I explain how I approach this I get surprised reactions, so I figure I might as well share it in a blog post and see what other people think. What makes something valid? When talking about validation...
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Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source of frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy. As part of my day to day job at Mollie [https://mollie.com/], guarding against data inconsistencies is always top of mind. At the very least, unexpected inconsistencies require attention from support or a developer. In worse situations,...
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How to use NPM workspaces for scoped packages.
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Integrating services over API's exposes your application to a range of possible failures. At scale, any network interaction can and will fail. Implementing a retry mechanism is a common approach to increase fault tolerance. Taking into account how systems fail when designing software can greatly improve the quality of your code. In this blogpost I'd like...
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For those who missed it, a new major version of Flysystem was released on the 24th of November. A new major version allows you break with the past for the sake of the future, which is exactly what I've done. For the second version of Flysystem I went back to the drawing board. Many of the library'...
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Over the years, my coding practices have changed a lot. From hacking away until it works to TDD/BDD/DDD and everything in between. One of the biggest changes in my developer career has been when, why, and how I test my code. In particular, my view on mocking frameworks has changed a lot. A couple of years ago I...
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To me, Tailwind CSS is one of the the most enjoyable tools to build documentation websites. It's quick, it's easy, and it gets the job done well. The library has taken the world by storm, and that doesn't surprise me one bit. When paired with a static site generator like Jekyll you've...
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> This post contains a lot of back-story about how this all came about, you can skip ahead if you only care about the code. In case you haven't worked with TypeScript before: TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that enhances the language by providing optional static typing. It's designed to scale well in large...
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In my day to day job I write in a number of programming languages. The majority of my time is spent writing PHP but I very much enjoy writing other languages, such as Go and Javascript, too! One of the things I like the most about JavaScript, and PHP also to some extent, is how flexible and expressive they CAN...