PHP Architect

by Scott Keck-Warren

Very early in my career, I became the lead break/fix technician in a small IT department. I didn't get the role because I knew someone or played office politics well (because, for full transparency, I...

by Wendell Adriel

Welcome back to our journey into resilient PHP applications. In Part III, we focused on traffic resilience with **HAProxy** and saw how a healthy edge keeps bad nodes out of rotation. That only helps...

by Christopher Miller

Alright, so we've cleaned up our data, and now it's time to start building the actual brains of our machine learning system. We're talking about neural networks - the digital equivalent of brain cells...

by Eric Mann

I woke up to an email no developer ever wants to see. AWS Support, subject line in bold - my SES account was under review. High bounce rate. Abuse reports. The kind of message that makes your stomach...

by John Congdon

Hello friends, and welcome to another Yelling At Clouds column. I am continuing my series on testing patterns in the hopes of giving you the skills to recognize when a specific pattern will solve your...

by John Congdon

There's a particular kind of pain that comes from inheriting an API where the documentation says one thing, the code does another, and the consumers have long since written their own internal notes to...

by Edward Barnard

When you see an odd AI response, what caused that response? Is it a hallucination, or something else? A detective might call this "figuring out the motive." Learning to reason from effect back to caus...

by Oscar Merida

Each release of PHP bring new capabilities to enhance our capabilities or reduce boilerplate code. PHP 8.4 introduced property hooks for handling getting and setting object properties without having t...

by John Congdon

I spent hours debugging a problem that came down to a single character. A function was modifying an array that should have been unchanged. I checked everything from the function logic, the calling cod...

by John Congdon

Everyone is talking about AI. With my usual cynical developer hat on, it took a long time to really embrace what was being offered. The early offerings, for example, had internet information cut-off d...