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 »
The PHP landscape has fully transitioned into its Package Age™. Packagist is the main resource for retrieving new PHP packages: most frameworks split out packages from »
The last couple of months I've been working with ReactJS quite extensively. It's been a very rewarding and insightful journey. There is, however, one part that »