php[architect]

Thanks to Taylor Otwell’s Laravel framework, PHP is reclaiming its rightful place as the go-to language for web application development. For those of us maintaining and developing applications using l...

We only have two sins left to discuss to complete our series, and this month we’ll discuss Envy (saving Wrath for our final installment). Now envy can manifest itself in many different ways in program...

In recognition of Women in History month, I asked women and non-binary developers to reflect on their experiences in the PHP community, and received about 30 responses.

Home security systems are an early warning to potential theft or abuse of our personal property. They’re useful because they alert us (and the police) to a problem before the theft happens. Logging an...

We continue our deep dive into how PHP implements arrays as hash tables. We’ll see how the collision chain works. We’re not ready to dig into the C implementation just yet, so we’ll see how to build a...

The argument over strict typing is nothing new in PHP. When the PHP 7.0 release was under development and the idea of scalar type hinting came up, there were developers on all sides with opinions on h...

At Pipedrive, we work hard to provide salespeople with the best CRM to manage their workflow. At the same time, we know a sales CRM is often used together with a variety of other tools, which can be d...

Creating content online has gotten exponentially simpler with new tools which allow more people to put their voice online. Sharing that content with others has likewise gotten uncomplicated with the a...

If you have one successful month after another, then scaling becomes something you always have to be aware of. While optimizing your resource usage and scaling your web instances (covered last month)...