PHP Architect

by Scott Keck-Warren

A lot of time and energy is spent discussing how open-source software enables modern business. Entire businesses (including several of mine) are built completely on open-source software and wouldn't e...

by Wendell Adriel

In Part VIII, we looked at cache as a resilience layer for reads. That helped us decide what may be stale, how to prevent stampedes, and how to keep the origin alive during spikes and partial dependen...

by Christopher Miller

Congratulations! You've built a neural network, trained it with gradient descent, and evaluated its performance. But here's the thing - your first attempt probably isn't optimal. It's like baking a ca...

by Eric Mann

The first web-accessible API I ever built didn't use REST. It didn't use JSON either. by Eric Mann

by John Congdon

Hello friends, it's time again for another column where I apply the concept of "design patterns" to testing your PHP code. by Chris Hartjes

by John Congdon

Authentication is one of those topics where the gap between "working" and "correct" is wide enough to cause serious problems. An API that issues tokens and accepts them on protected routes is working....

by Oscar Merida

We've added event-driven architecture to keep our API clients lightweight while enabling secondary actions—like logging, analytics, and local persistence—to run seamlessly in the background. In our pr...

by John Congdon

Hello again, PHP community. I've recently been thinking about how small changes can have a big impact on someone using adaptive technology, such as a screen reader, to navigate the web. I've touched o...

by Jamison R. Bryant

When AI tools meet persistent remote environments, the friction between having an idea and acting on it nearly disappears. In this article, I share how I scaffolded an entire CakePHP plugin from my iP...

by John Congdon

Encapsulation is one of those terms that gets thrown around in object-oriented programming discussions without anyone stopping to explain why it actually matters. by Marian Pop