php[architect]

Behat, and feature tests overall, are crucial for giving you confidence that when you refactor code, you don’t change how an application works and for helping you understand how an application behaves...

When we talk about long-term planning for our code, we often mean making sure that it can handle increases in traffic as usage increases (if we are lucky). We also usually mean making sure the code is...

Fun fact, no matter where you stand in the state of Michigan, you are never further than 85 miles from a Great Lake. It’s the only state that touches four of the five Great Lakes, has its own regional...

Last month, news broke of a breach of the PHP community’s development Git server. This breach included the addition of two malicious commits to the language’s source code. The malicious code was immed...

This month, we’re indulging in a bit of magic and a bit of weirdness. That’s my way of explaining what I call Wizard Thinking, something I’ve found to be an instrumental skill indeed.

We continue our containerization journey from last month where we covered how to refactor an application that created PDF files to use S3 to store the documents instead of relying on the local server’...

Over the last few months, I have been slowly building toward something. As you have come along this text journey with me—which thankfully has no Grues—I have been putting into place all the knowledge...

Ciphers come in many different forms and have been used since ancient times to encode and decode vital messages. Today, we use complicated mathematics to encrypt and decrypt messages. Typically, we de...

In the PHP world, if you ask most developers about testing frameworks, the first response you’ll get is PHPUnit. But there are several alternatives, and one of them is atoum. This article introduces y...

In the past ten years, PHP has undergone several transformations that made the language faster, stricter, and included support for a large variety of high-quality tooling. But, most importantly, the P...