PHP Architect

by Scott Keck-Warren

I love to use analogies, and one of the analogies I particularly enjoy using about the PHP community is the iceberg analogy. Icebergs are interesting because only 10% of the icebergs are above the wat...

by Wendell Adriel

In Part I of this article, we started to learn why **High Availability** is important and also started to get into the mindset that's needed for a team to evolve a "simple" application into an **HA**...

by Christopher Miller

Now that we've gotten our feet wet with linear algebra, it's time to talk about algorithms - the step-by-step recipes that computers follow to get things done. And before you start wondering why we're...

by Edward Barnard

Barriers become points of leverage when you look at them from a different point of view. I discovered a problem with the current "LLM Patterns" column design - I was planning to wait too long to produ...

by John Congdon

Hello friends, welcome to another Yelling At Clouds column. In 2026, I am concentrating on sharing my thoughts on the use of patterns to help you get better at testing. Since I wrote my last book, my...

by Eric Mann

I remember the moment I realized how much trust I was placing in strangers. by Eric Mann

by Oscar Merida

Building a new software project often starts with a sprint of pure features. We've successfully built a functional client for the Spacetraders.io game, but as the functionality grows, we've incurred a...

by John Congdon

by Maxwell Ivey

by Hunter Yeago

The Internet is one of the most impactful pieces of infrastructure ever created. by Hunter Yeago

by John Congdon

Classes are everywhere in modern PHP. You use them constantly, extending controllers, creating models, and building services. But there's a difference between using classes and understanding them. Whe...