PHP Architect

by Christopher Miller

So far, our neural network can make predictions, but how does it know if those predictions are any good? That's like having a student take a test but never getting it graded. Without feedback, there's...

by Scott Keck-Warren

When my eldest child was born, I didn't expect it to change how I thought about software accessibility completely. But within a few weeks, I found myself doing nearly everything with, at best, one han...

by John Congdon

Hello friends! Welcome to another Yelling At Clouds column, where I continue on with Grumpy Testing Patterns. As I write this, PHP Tek 2026 is about a month away, and even though I am unable to attend...

by Wendell Adriel

In Part V, we made session continuity boring. A user can survive node loss, drains, and routine deploys without getting kicked back to the login page. That is a meaningful step forward, but it still l...

by Eric Mann

I shipped a Laravel application last year that nearly cost me my AWS account. by Eric Mann

by John Congdon

There's a frustrating experience most API consumers have had at some point. by Steve McDougall

by Oscar Merida

A heavy database server may be overkill for local applications and medium-traffic applications. Why configure, manage, and monitor a service if you don't have to? In this article, I'll show you how to...

by John Congdon

Every PHP developer has used a query builder. Eloquent, Doctrine DBAL, Laravel's DB facade. They are convenient, safe, and ubiquitous. So why would anyone build one from scratch? by Marian Pop

by John Congdon

Check out Ben Ramsey's fun recollection of this year's Tek. by Ben Ramsey