Jan
22,
2019
Just find the right flow – Branching models and workflows for SCM systems
Source control management systems (SCM) are a part of the standard equipment of a software developer. Despite their daily usage, there are still many helpful techniques that are largely unknown. There are quite a lot of SCM tools [1]. This article refers to the freely available, distributed SCM tool Git that has a very high relevance due to its widespread use. And with only a few adaptations many of the here presented practises can also be applied to other solutions as well, for example, subversions.
Jul
12,
2018
Node.js module: JSON Server
Most cases of web frontend development, require a functioning backend. Yet quite often the frontend and backend are developed separately. This means, that the functionality of the frontend can only be tested, if there’s a backend providing it with a counterpoint station. And to decrease this backend dependency you can actually use a Mock server instead.
May
22,
2018
Video: Debugging, Logging and Profiling in Distributed Systems
With the increased use of Microservices and Docker in production one question is how to monitor with rising complexity in services?
Feb
12,
2018
Tutorial: How to extract microservices from a PHP monolith
Here it stands, the monolith that has grown for decades, and is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain and expand. An undifferentiated rewrite would be too expensive and no guarantee that it would be better this time. In order to tame the monolith, we can refactor it on a large scale, i. e. maintain its behaviour but improve its structure. This can be done, for example, by extracting microservices - and preferably in small steps.
Aug
31,
2017
Message Processing Retries with RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ is an open source message broker, useful in almost any technology stack. It's built in Erlang and has a reputation for being a robust and reliable technology. However, in this article we'll look at what happens when things are not going smoothly, and how to handle retries when processing RabbitMQ messages.
Aug
1,
2017
Backups in the Time of Microservices
Backups are one of those things in the IT world that aren't debatable. You should have'em! End of discussion. Statistically speaking, if you never needed one, every day forward you are more likely to actually need a backup.
Jul
19,
2017
Continuous Integration for PHP
Continuous Integration is the first step of a Continuous Delivery Chain and can be used as a standalone solution. It reduces the team's workload in the field of quality management by automation and helps to make sure software quality is maintained in the long run.
Jan
17,
2017
The Container Revolution: It’s not about the box, it’s about the standard.
The PHP community has come a long way: from the early days of a templating engine for “dynamic websites”, through the adventurous years of a hacky scripting language until now. In the past ten years, we started discussing design patterns and good architecture and in general created more robust, versatile and complex applications. And with the complexity came a row of new tools and techniques, which were necessary to harness all the parts which make a sophisticated PHP application. But have we also become more professional on the infrastructural side?