Workaday Readings are the droll, dry, and dear pages I continuously tick through during my day.

This is shop talk, not for general consumption! (lest you want to fall asleep 😉 )

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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

“In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages. We shared our journey of how we started out using MongoDB but migrated our data to Cassandra because we were looking for a database that was scalable, fault-tolerant, and relatively low maintenance.”


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Sandboxing with Partytown

“Partytown is a “library to help relocate resource intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code, and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker.”


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Design Patterns in PHP 8: State

“Hi there! State design pattern is a behavioral design pattern that enables an object to change its behavior when its internal state changes. This pattern is useful when an object’s behavior is dependent on its state, and it must change its behavior at runtime based on changes in the state.”


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PHP in 2023

“From its humble beginnings as a personal project in the mid-90s, PHP has grown to become one of the most popular languages for web development, powering everything from small blogs to large enterprise applications.”


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