Aug
29,
2018
Crowdtesting in quality assurance – The massive hunt for mistakes
Yet again there is another, new method in quality assurance – is probably what some people might think and they aren’t entirely unjustified to do so. But right now the market is crying out for solutions to place high-quality software on the market and to secure it on countless devices. For this purpose, Crowdtesting is a proven approach with a lot of potential for all those who deal with software testing.
Aug
14,
2018
Is my shop up to the task? Realistic performance tests for operative security
As easy as it might be to execute simple performance tests with ab or siege, it’s still quite difficult to ensure that a website can actually withstand the expected load. It’s quite regularly that websites collapse under the burden of a relaunch or a planned advertising campaign. Kore Nordmann will show you how you can be certain about surviving such an event successfully.
Jul
31,
2018
Video: Rapid Prototyping with Domain-driven Design
It took several decades until the majority of software developers accepted one simple fact: we have no idea what we’re doing.
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.
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Jul
11,
2018
Convince Your Boss
You're longing for new ideas, connecting with like-minded devs and widen your horizon? Then IPC is the place to be. We help you out convincing your boss to send you to the International PHP Conference with these 3 easy steps.
Jun
27,
2018
Hello my name is “if”
It’s an inescapable fact that writing maintainable code is not easy. Before we can change any code, we have to understand what the code currently does, and whether it’s supposed to do that.
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?
Apr
10,
2018
We’ll have to go over this again later on…
In addition to the many large and long-standing legacy code applications, there are more and more brand-new products. New extensions and modules offer new possibilities and thus opportunities for customers and companies. However, there is one major problem that continues to produce legacy code: the developer. In this article I will highlight various aspects of software development and encourage good software quality and work.
Mar
6,
2018
New routers needed in the country
The dominance of the PHP framework silos is coming to an end. Thanks to the increasing popularity of the Composer, PHP developers are finding it easier and easier to build their own framework from many different building blocks and packages. This article provides an overview of some PHP routers that are available as useful alternatives.
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.