php[architect]

As the new year dawns, the snow is flying (at least where I am), and so are the resolutions. I can’t even count how many emails I have gotten from companies about how they can help me stick to “my res...

As the title states, what PSR-14 is truly about is an Event Dispatcher. This is what sends out the Event into the system. We’re also going to talk about Events and Listeners, as the dispatcher would h...

The TALL Stack is a collection of frameworks for building interactive applications with Laravel. Let’s take a closer look at the TALL stack - T(Tailwindcss) - A(Alpine.js) - L(Laravel) - L (Livewire)....

Every developer should strive to not only build a quality application but also to ensure that security is baked in at every phase of development. Applications handling customer payment information are...

The past two months focused on transactional-consistency boundaries. This month we’re extending the concept to RESTful API requests and responses. We’ll ensure that responses are internally consistent...

This month we’ll dive into upgrading a PHP 7.1 application originally built with the Laravel framework version 5.6 with reckless abandon. The only way this kind of upgrade can succeed is with a robust...

Which should you use…Monolith or Microservices? Neither is better or worse, so let’s look at them more closely to figure out which will work for you. by Chris Tankersley

Working with dates and times is fraught with peril, so it helps to practice manipulating such data. We’ll have to be wary of how to calculate differences between dates, potentially deal with leap days...

ORMs are great for Rapid Application Development. You can get started very quickly. The price you pay is the vast complexity they hide under the hood. As your system grows, that complexity can bite yo...

In this article, I want to examine one of the most common problems I have faced while working on many applications, legacy or not. I will also suggest an alternative solution, but first, I will need t...