Sep
28,
2017
Making code refactoring safer with functional tests
<div style="text-align: justify">You might have heard about it before: Most of the time it doesn't make any sense to write software from scratch. Instead, existing software should be refactored – especially when there's no one who understands anymore what exactly some piece of code actually does. Refactoring refers to changing...
Aug
31,
2017
Message Processing Retries with RabbitMQ
<div style="text-align: justify"><a href="https://www.rabbitmq.com" style="color: #921015;">RabbitMQ</a> 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 <strong>not</strong> going smoothly, and how...
Aug
1,
2017
Backups in the Time of Microservices
<div style="text-align: justify">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.
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Jul
19,
2017
Continuous Integration for PHP
<div style="text-align: justify">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.
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Jul
3,
2017
Zend Expressive: your 101 to really get into the universe.
<div style="text-align: justify">Zend\Expressive has been the new dynamo in the Zend Framework universe for quite some time now. As a PSR-7 middleware microframework it promises the creation of lightweight web applications within minutes. Let’s take a look at current and past developments concerning Zend/Expressive.
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Jun
19,
2017
Top Node.js frameworks for awesome web applications
<div style="text-align: justify">There are a lot of options out there if you’re looking for an awesome Node.js framework. We’re here to help you choose the best one for whatever cool code you need to use.
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May
11,
2017
Essential Complexity is Essential
<div style="text-align: justify">The two greatest foes of every software developer are a) uncertainty and b) complexity. Over the years, we have invented many tools and methods to fight them. But eventually, we realized that uncertainty cannot be defeated and instead we learned to embrace it with ever shorter feedback cycles,...
Apr
7,
2017
Understanding Dependency Injection
The term dependency injection refers to a technique whereby the dependencies of one object are supplied – or injected – by another object. Instead of letting the client (the object that needs those dependencies) build or find the dependencies, the dependencies would be passed to the object. That’s the whole...
Apr
4,
2017
Applying a microservice architecture to development teams
For larger teams, breaking down your application into loosely coupled components can be a real game changer. This is how it's done.
Mar
2,
2017
PHPUnit 6, Failed Tests and lots of answers
When Sebastian Bergmann recently released PHPUnit 6 it was „as if millions of tests suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced“. What had happened?