There is some confusion out there about which high-level programming languages are interpreted and which are compiled. And every time someone mentions that PHP is an interpreted one, many PHP developers seem like feeling a bit ashamed about it. Mostly because they think that PHP is the only, or one of the few, programming languages…
In this post, we explore a basic development environment setup using Traefik. Basic concepts Traefik is an open-source Edge Router. “Edge” means that is supposed to live and handle traffic on the edge of your network. It is not supposed to be used in routing internal traffic within your infrastructure but only traffic between external…
This is the second post about Swoole and it contains code samples that take advantage of Swoole asynchronous functions and coroutines. The first post can be found here. HTTP Requests Asynchronous 1: We put each request in a separate coroutine and pass them a channel through which they will pass to us the results of…
This first part will provide some basics on working with Swoole and it is meant to work as an introduction to the code samples we will include in the second part. Slowly but steadily, mostly in the last 5-6 years, PHP is making steps to the direction of asynchronous programming. Although ReactPHP was showing the…
In 2018, at last, MySQL (version 8) decided to add support to the famous “SKIP LOCKED” feature. Other RDBMS like Oracle and SQL Server support this feature for more than 15 years and PostgreSQL added support in 2016. If this is the first time you hear about this, it is a flag that tells the…
Let’s start with a definition: “a trait is a concept used in object-oriented programming, which represents a set of methods that can be used to extend the functionality of a class” (Wikipedia) So, a set of methods. No properties. No extra state representation. After all, as you may know, this is the fundamental difference between…
Every piece of software contains literals (usually numbers, strings or booleans). These are values related to application configuration, parts of the business logic, natural or language constants, etc.. We have learned to replace many of these values with variables, constants or function calls for various reasons (security, manageability, readability, expressivity,…), which we are not going…
This is a problem that you may have run into at some point. Especially, if you had to display or print the components of a price using less decimals than the decimals used for the calculations. Cutting-off decimals after the calculation has taken place can lead to inconsistency between the summands and the sum. In…
Flyweight pattern is not a pattern that you will come across very often in web applications. Most web applications are just serving incoming HTTP requests, a task that lasts just a few milliseconds. So, memory usage is not really a consideration for their developers. However, there is one area where you can see this pattern…
Setting up Redis: (on Ubuntu 16.04) Install Redis server apt-get install redis-server Enable Redis as service (start on system boot) systemctl enable redis-server.service Note: The service configuration can be found at: /etc/systemd/system/redis.service There you can see that Redis will be running as user redis: User=redis Group=redis The Redis server will always restart after reboot: Restart=always…
Every developer who respects himself should, sooner or later, understand the tools he/she is working with work. And frameworks are not an exception. For those who don’t have the time to delve into the Laravel internals, here is a list of the main actions that take place every time Laravel is called (based on version…
This is an overview about Laravel’s DI container ( Illuminate\Container\Container ) and its functionality. It is interesting to have a look since the logic behind most of the DI containers is more or less the same (not to be surprised. After all, the goal is the same, too.) (a) It is a singleton. There can…