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Symfony/Doctrine’s Docs has caused more bugs than anything else.
Symfony and Doctrine’s documentation has a slight flaw: they don’t use constructors for DTOs.
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How to kill a Kubernetes cluster in one easy step
I swear, for the past few months, there has been a major issue with my Kubernetes cluster, at least once a month. Once, a simple update took out my entire network infrastructure. It was down for nearly a whole weekend… This time … this time it was down for nearly a week: the worst one…
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Creating an ORM-less framework
Years ago, I enjoyed working with Durable Functions on Azure. There were some aspects that I fell in love with, like how “close” I felt to pure DDD, how simple it was to scale, and how little boilerplate was required. I just had one “problem”[1], I wanted to use it in PHP. I’ve been a…
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Hello, Swytch Framework
Hello everyone! Several years ago, I embarked on a journey to build an app in PHP 8. To have some fun along the way, I decided to throw out ‘established’ and ‘entrenched’ ideas in software development. So, I experimented and questioned everything. The original app still isn’t done. I’m not sure when, if ever, it…
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The Cargo Cult of TCP_NODELAY: When to Use It
I learned a ton writing this post, especially about how HTTP2 works and how its binary format affects network performance. Hopefully you’ll learn something here as well! What is Nagle’s Algorithm My last post kinda exploded on Hacker News while a raging debate on TCP_NODELAY went on. It was wildly interesting to see the two…
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Golang is evil on shitty networks
This adventure starts with git-lfs. It was a normal day and I added a 500 MB binary asset to my server templates. When I went to push it, I found it interesting that git-lfs was uploading at 50KB per second. Being that I had a bit of free time that I’d much rather be spending…
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[Solved] A 2-day adventure in networking, Windows, IPv6 and WSL
My servers all are IPv6-only, or they would be if I didn’t use WSL. I’ve always preferred Windows to virtually anything else, but I like the Linux command line better. (I’m not too fond of PowerShell… and that’s a hill I’m willing to die on.) So, back to the story. I finally got absolutely tired…
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Building the fastest PHP router ever
Ok, so the title might be a little bit click-baity since I haven’t compared it to every router in existence. Just nikic’s Fast Route. On my sabbatical last summer, I was messing about with microservices (which I’m convinced are evil, but that is an article for another day). During that, I decided to create a…
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Exploring the performance of FrankenPHP
If you live in the PHP world, you’ve probably heard of FrankenPHP. As soon as I saw the project, I fell in love with it. I tend to go back and forth between several languages, even mixing them when the problem calls for it. But here’s FrankenPHP, a beautiful mix of Go, C, and PHP.…
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Thoughts on PHP Fibers
The last couple of days of my winter vacation, I wanted to really understand PHP 8’s fibers. To do so, I attempted to implement RAFT simply by reading the dissertation on it. My key takeaway was that it has been a really long time since I’ve tried to implement something like this by reading plain…