Somewhere around a year ago, we started using GES in production as the primary data store of our new loyalty system. The system stores two types of data. External services push batches of dumb downed events to the loyalty system. For example: a user logged on, played a game or p…
Similar to last year, while on vacation of my primary job I focused my open source efforts on improving PHPStan performance. You might also be interested in other articles of this PHP performance series. I teamed up with OndΕej Mirtes - the creator of PHPStan - in deep analyzing…
To make the MySQL Document Store primary programming interface, the X DevAPI, a success we should provide building blocks to solve common web development tasks, for example, faceted search. But is there any chance a relational database bend towards a document store can compete a…
MySQL Replication has a weak point: the master (primary) is a single point of failure. People ask frequently about client failover. Making a client library failover a client automatically from one server to another is simple. PECL/mysqlnd_ms can do it. Unfortunately, this is onl…
As shared by on Simon Willison’s blog, Zig has an interesting anti-LLM policy for contributions in their code of conduct. Zig values contributors over their contributions. Each contributor represents an investment by the Zig core team - the primary goal of reviewing and ac…
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A couple of days ago I was cleaning up my [1Password](https://1password.com/) primary vault, and I came across some entries dated 2008. In the software industry, eight years is quite a long period for a software adoption, and a question popped into my head: how long have I been …
Today I want to share the birth of a new project with the Laravel community: Artisan School. The primary goal is to provide high-quality Laravel screencasts where I mix the Laravel documentation with real-life examples. Besides the video content, I want to create a place to disc…
In this short post, we'll explore what one has to do in order to build out a system that uses non-autoincrementing primary keys. Why would we want to do this? Whether an internal or public facing, let's consider URL like https://example.com/things/12345 and what qualities it has…
Webshell is a console-based, JavaScripty web client utility that is great for consuming, debugging and interacting with APIs. I use Firefox as my primary browser. The main reason I've been faithful to Mozilla is my set of add-ons. I use Firebug regularly, and I'm not sure what I…