You Can’t Buy Integration
“Commercial integration tools are a couple decades old now, but there has been little in the way of overarching architectural principles describing when and how to use them.”
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Sorted Tables for Faster Range-Scans
“Most developers will use an automatically incrementing column for the primary key with insertion-order sorting for the table’s data by default. However, rows belonging together are stored in the database file very far away, resulting in many disk fetch operations. When instead e.g.”
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Git Message Verbosity
I love me a long git commit message. I’m telling a story and by George you’re going to see it, read it, and love it. Well, I think you should, I think my future self should.
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Understanding WebViews
“WebViews allow you to display web content inside a native app, but they hide more tricks than just that. Find out what those tricks are! When it comes to accessing internet content, we typically use a browser like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Edge.”
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How To Optimize Laravel for Performance
“Laravel is a popular open-source PHP framework that’s known for its robust security and simple yet sophisticated coding architecture. It’s a great choice for building cutting-edge web applications capable of driving revenue and propelling businesses forward.”
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Software Engineering – The Soft Parts
“Today I’ll share some of the software engineering “soft skills” I’ve learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering Manager. On my 10th anniversary, I wanted to reflect on some of lessons that have stayed with me.”
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Adventures in AWS Lambda Land – a Migration Gone Well
“As many others did before and regretted later, we’ve decided to move a big part of our workload from long-running processes to Lambda. That said, we haven’t regretted it a bit. It’s been a breeze so far, even if there are a few shortcomings of Lambda, which are just annoying.”
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5 Pitfalls of Upgrade to Native PHP Enums and How to Avoid Them
“Native PHP Enums came almost a year ago in PHP 8.1. It’s pretty easy to add a new enum. But how do we handle the old hacks we used to use before enums were legal in PHP land? MyCLabs, Spatie, or constants list. Today we’ll upgrade them all.”
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When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done
“The last company I worked for was a mid-stage startup with growing pains. What had started out as a nimble organization able to create impressive software now felt stuck.”
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Serverless systems aren’t software systems
“If you don’t understand why this is, then you’re doing serverless wrong. The reason is that serverless systems are built on a foundation of building tiny and highly or completely decoupled systems within a much wider system.”
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junegunn/fzf : A command-line fuzzy finder
“It’s an interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc. You can download fzf executable alone if you don’t need the extra stuff.”
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Introduction
“asdf is a tool version manager. All tool version definitions are contained within one file (.tool-versions) which you can check in to your project’s Git repository to share with your team, ensuring everyone is using the exact same versions of tools.”
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A cd command that learns – easily navigate directories from the command line
“NAME autojump – a faster way to navigate your filesystem DESCRIPTION autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to.”
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PNPM: Because to work more flexible we start from the bottom
“In the end, pnpm changes the structure inside the node_modules folder to better manage symlinks and other magic stuff but all of this is transparent to you. You will be able to use your packages inside your code as always at the cost of using pnpm instead of using npm or yarn”
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Kint – debugging helper for PHP developers
“Kint – debugging helper for PHP developers What am I looking at? At first glance Kint is just a pretty replacement for var_dump(), print_r() and debug_backtrace(). However, it’s much, much more than that. You will eventually wonder how you developed without it.”
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Applying the self-service updates
“You can start applying the service updates to your Redis fleet from the time that the updates have an available status until they have an expired status. Service updates of the type security are cumulative.”
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Service Container
“The Laravel service container is a powerful tool for managing class dependencies and performing dependency injection. Dependency injection is a fancy phrase that essentially means this: class dependencies are “injected” into the class via the constructor or, in some cases, “setter” methods.”
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Request Lifecycle
“When using any tool in the “real world”, you feel more confident if you understand how that tool works. Application development is no different. When you understand how your development tools function, you feel more comfortable and confident using them.”
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One way to work with money in PHP/Laravel
“At some point, probably most of us have had to work with monetary values in our applications. There is a lot of debate on how to do it right, but the consensus is clear — never use floats and floating-point arithmetic.”
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A Quick Performance Optimization Guide Using PHP Generators
“Generators provide an easy way to implement simple iterators without the overhead or complexity of implementing a class that implements the Iterator interface.”
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