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 »
When developers talk about the infrastructural boundaries or external dependencies they often talk about databases and third-party integration. They're the first thing we'll put behind an »
Docker, and containerised services in general, have brought a lot to the world of software development. While not everybody is (or ever should be) using docker »
WARNING: There will be a total of 3 GIF's in this article. If that's too much for you to handle I invite you to stop reading. »
Last week I took a deep dive into Symfony's Routing Component. A project I worked on suffered from a huge performance penalty caused by a routing »
For a client project we are using ElasticSearch (ES) as one of our read-models. The use-case was pretty straight forward and the amount of data was »
Cleaning up after yourself can be a tedious task. For example, closing file handlers after using them needs to be done. A programmer's life isn't all »
A load-balanced vagrant setup, because why the hell not! Not all projects require more that one instance of your application to handle the demand. When you »
A recent addition to the PHP League was the pipeline package, which allows you to compose sequential operations. One of the key aspects of the pipeline »
When you start working on a new project, there are usually a couple of steps you'll need to follow to get up and running. This process »