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 🙏…
Symfony vs Laravel: A humble request (Part 1)
In these articles I’m going to implement the same (fairly trivial) functionality in both Symfony and Laravel.