14
Aug
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.
31
Jul
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.
22
May
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?
20
Dec
Symfony 4 and Symfony Flex – Core Ideas, Features and Improvements
Since its release back in 2005, Symfony has been continuously evolving and improving. With every new version, the framework has pushed forward, helping us writing better code faster.
4
Oct
Making a case for Go – for PHP developers!
Developers usually take their programming language of choice very seriously. Which makes sense since it’s probably the tool they spend the most time using. We get attached to our languages, and debating the merits of various languages can get… passionate.
19
Jul
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.
2
Mar
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?
16
Feb
Software Quality Is No One-Time Effort
While it is very interesting to learn about new software designs and architecture patterns we tend to forget that our software must be adaptable over time and this might even be more important than choosing the "right" patterns at the very beginning. Requirements for software always changed and will always change.
15
Dec
The significance of PHP – Is it still relevant?
Most of us might remember the days when we thought the web would not have a bright future. Designers with backgrounds in print media were trying to fix the web with layout tables, JavaScript was pure evil, and PHP was a technology which teared deep security holes into a web server. But the Times, They are a-Changing.