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If you’ve ever tried to use an array as a queue or stack (via array_pop , array_push , array_unshift and array_shift ), you may have discovered they are slow, particularly array_unshift which requires shifting the...

I was born on a Wednesday, and for some reason, when my birthday falls on a Wednesday, I always consider it a “special” birthday: a Birthday Day.

Durable PHP is a framework for writing arbitrarily complex code that scales. It’s still under active development, but I thought I’d write a few blog posts about it before I release the documentation on how to use it....

Durable PHP is a framework for writing arbitrarily complex code that scales. It’s still under active development, but I thought I’d write a few blog posts about it before I release the documentation on how to use it....

From the beginning, I knew Event Sourcing would be a big part of Durable PHP , and I learned from several Event Sourced projects I’ve built or worked on over the years. Specifically, I knew what issues any project...

I’m fascinated by event-driven systems. In these systems, everything happens for a reason, which is just as important as its effect on the system. In my perfect universe, everything is built to be event-driven… but...

If there is one moment I’ll never forget, it was the little box hovering a few feet in the air. When my girlfriend walked in, she thought it was a clever piece of art, made to look as though held up by some wires...

I moved around a lot as a kid; I always had to make new friends wherever I went. Our family was close, not because we necessarily liked each other, but because we didn’t have a choice. For a long while, home was with...

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...

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 .