In the constantly changing landscape of PHP, version 8 brought with it an innovative feature: the match expression. Many see it as a streamlined and more effective counterpart to the traditional switch. Let’s explore their distinctions. The traditional switch goes something like this: With PHP 8, the equivalent match looks far more compact: At a … read more …
As the code base of a project grows larger and larger, maintainability, predictability and “clean code” is getting more and more a key strategy for successful projects. While it is totally ok to have “quick and dirty” smelling code for prototypes and MVP’s, things change dramatically for scaling projects in production. In this blog post, … read more …
PHP introduces WeakMap datastructure with version 8.0. This new data structures is capable of containing objects while simultaneously enabling them to be cleared via garbage collection once not needed anymore. WeakMap is a evolution of weak references added with PHP 7.4 and enables the development of collections of references that can be subjected to garbage … read more …
PHP introduced attributes with version 8.0. Prior PHP8, it was possible to use annotations to use the benefits of attributes.Attributes are a type of metadata that can be added to classes, methods, properties, and even function parameters. This metadata doesn’t directly affect the behavior of your code, but it can be retrieved at runtime using … read more …
In this publication of my PHP related blog series, I want to address Pure Intersection Types in PHP. In the previous blogs of the series, I addressed different features added to PHP with PHP 8 and PHP 8.1. The first blog was about readonly properties, the second one focused on Enums and the third and … read more …
PHP added Enums with version 8.1. Finally! Many other programming languages such as Java and C# have enums for a long long time. And as a little time has passed since enums were added to PHP core, I quickly want to give an overview and continue with the some personal thoughts about when and how … read more …
Recently at SCAYLE, I wrote a Laravel service that inserts data using Eloquent into a table like this: For people not familiar with Laravel/Eloquent: The HelloWorld model mirrors the database structure and the save method persists data into the database table. So far, so good. Like for any good and responsible project, I wrote unit … read more …
For a current project, I need to read data from an API, transform and push it to an AWS S3 bucket. Normally I would consider to use a standard programming language for that because there is no “magic” involved. However, one of the requirements is to use Benthos, a tool for “Fancy stream processing made … read more …
In 2019 I wrote about a MySQL 5.7 migration at Check24. While it is very exciting when working on new features, it is also a good thing to think about the architecture and use modern frameworks and libraries. Working on the architecture provides also the opportunity to improve source code quality and introduce quick wins. … read more …
In this post, I want to address scalable system design and how to grow a system while it’s user base grows. Because talking only about the theory can become boring very quickly, I want to discuss this topic on a practical example. Before I start with the design itself, keep in mind that there is … read more …