Software Engineer
Notes on Golang, PHP, JavaScript and other related web technologies — from a decade of building, shipping, and maintaining software for the web.
For years, we’ve been abusing HTTP. Not in a catastrophic way, but in a subtle, “everyone does it so it’s fine” kind of way. The biggest offender? Using POST for read-only operations just because GET wasn’t flexible enough. RFC…
Picture this: You’re monitoring your production logs, everything seems normal, until you notice something odd. Your application is processing large JSON messages—some pushing 21KB—but…
In the world of containerized applications, managing runtime configurations efficiently is crucial for ensuring flexibility, scalability, and maintainability. One of the challenges developers face…
In modern cloud-native environments, containers have become the backbone for running services at scale. Kubernetes, in particular, excels at orchestrating containerized applications. One common…
Git commit signing with GPG keys adds an extra layer of security and authenticity to your code contributions. This guide will walk you through…
GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a free, open-source software tool for secure communication and data protection. It implements the OpenPGP standard, allowing users to…
PHP's in_array() function is a versatile tool for searching values within an array. By default, it performs a loose comparison, which can sometimes lead…
Today I’d like to share with you an episode of MySQL queries optimization. Deploying an application that grows over time implies some refactoring for…
Want to test your hashtag#php packages before you publish them on hashtag#Packagist? Or are you using hashtag#private repositories for your hashtag#packages and still want…
Have you tried to setup an S6 supervisor for the official PHP Docker image, just to realize that something does not work right? Like,…
Why You Should Use PHP in 2019? Before we start… PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, and it is a general-purpose, free and open-source scripting…