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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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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