Jun 12, 20214 Strategies for Future Events with Event SourcingMost systems will have to deal with future or deferred events. Even the most common example of software on the web — a blog — will have the ability to “publish” a post in the future at a certain time. When that time is reached, the read model should return…Event Sourcing5 min readEvent Sourcing5 min read
Apr 8, 2021Laravel Octane on HerokuLaravel Octane is a new way of running Laravel applications at super high speeds: “Laravel Octane supercharges your application’s performance by serving your application using high-powered application servers, including Swoole and RoadRunner. Octane boots your application once, keeps it in memory, and then feeds it requests at supersonic speeds.” Swoole…Laravel2 min readLaravel2 min read
Jan 13, 2021A “default first” approach with TailwindTailwind CSS is a mobile first, utility CSS framework which will vastly increase productivity while implementing designs in your web app or website. A small DX improvement I make in my Tailwind projects, which I’m describing as a “default first” approach (this is a semi-joke derived from mobile first). It…Tailwind Css1 min readTailwind Css1 min read
Jan 13, 2021Continuous Laravel Blueprint DXLaravel Blueprint is a wonderful tool that helps scaffold Laravel apps in the early stage of development. It uses a simple YAML format, like the below: Then run php artisan blueprint:trace and the models, migrations, factories, Nova resources will all be generated. This saves a lot of time, but…Laravel1 min readLaravel1 min read
Dec 1, 2020Put tests next to what they’re testing in LaravelThis is a matter of personal preference, it basically means that if you have a file, say app/Services/Calculator.php and you wanted to write a test for this class, instead of hiding the test away in a tests/Unit/Services/CalculatorTest.php file, you would put the test right next to what it is testing…Test Driven Development1 min readTest Driven Development1 min read
Nov 26, 2019Laravel on Heroku: The Ultimate GuideHeroku provides a good base level guide to get a Laravel running on its platform, however, it really stops at the bare minimum. We’ve got 10+ (micro-ish) services running in production on Heroku and over the years we’ve fine tuned our setup to ensure that these apps are performant and…Laravel5 min readLaravel5 min read
Sep 9, 2018Better Environment Variable Management in Laravel and NodeI think point 3 of the 12 factor app is one of the most important and easily achievable factors to achieve. Frameworks like Laravel encourages this behaviour out of the box, with the loading of the .env file and the config directory for the different services the application might do…Laravel2 min readLaravel2 min read
Jul 5, 2018Single File (WordPress) ComponentsEvery developer loves to hate WordPress, and they have good reason to! It’s built on PHP which has its many flaws and does not follow any modern software architectures. However, there’s no denying the popularity of the “platform”, it powers 20% of the internet and as such there is a…Web Development2 min readWeb Development2 min read
Jul 5, 2018The URI is the best place to store stateIf you have state that can be stored in the URI, I highly suggest you store it there, because: It’s understandable by the user The user can easily change it It can be easily shared It can be easily saved / bookmarked It’s had “Time Travel” since the first browser …1 min read1 min read
May 15, 2018Laravel Firebase AuthIf you authenticate with Firebase in your app, authenticating with your API is very easy, as the Firebase token is a JWT. All we really need to is implement a Guard with a user function that returns an Authenticatable object. Because our user is actually stored in the JWT token…API1 min readAPI1 min read
