Demystifying Docker - Part 2
In this article I'm going to walk through containerising a Laravel application. Along the way I'll cover some of the terminology you'll he…
Demystifying Docker
Fairly frequently I stumble across a post in /r/PHP that's asking a question. I answer the question in my head before the comments have loaded. Th…
Orchestrated UI with Symfony UX and Mercure
In a previous post I wrote about a workflow/server driven UI using Symfony Forms and React. I created a demo to go with it, but it was rough and incom…
Enterprise Architecture for a blog nobody reads
The previous incarnation of this site lived happily on a Digital Ocean droplet - until react2shell came along. I put the whole thing together rather…
Refactoring Legacy: Part 2 - Tell, Don't Ask (Server Driven UI)
It will always break. You could write flawless code. You could have 100% test coverage, multi-region failover, circuit breakers, retries, the works.…
Refactoring Legacy: Part 1 - DTO's & Value Objects
Ever opened a codebase where a single JSON payload could arrive in 17 different shapes depending on the phase of the moon? Over the last few years my…
Symfony vs Laravel - A humble request (Part 3)
In this post I'll actually make some progress towards persisting our humble request. Before that I'm going to talk about a snake, to be more p…
Symfony vs Laravel: A humble request (Part 2)
I had planned to talk about documentation and testing with this post but thanks to hindsight and the feedback from r/PHP (which I really appreciate 🙏…