What Makes Technology Work
Explore the challenges of building successful technology products, focusing on scalability, customer needs, and strategic development in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Wield AngularJS Like a Pro
Explore advanced AngularJS techniques, tools, and best practices with AngularUI team member Nate Abele. Learn to leverage community resources and boost your app-building skills.
Vagrant Provisioners in a Nutshell
Explore Vagrant provisioners for PHP development, focusing on Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. Learn to create optimized development boxes and improve workflow efficiency.
Algorithm, Review, Sorting
Explore sorting algorithms through live demos and visualizations, learning analysis techniques and historical context while diving into computer science fundamentals.
Facebook's Approach to Common Web Vulnerabilities
Explore Facebook's strategies for combating web vulnerabilities, including XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection, through security libraries, automated detection, and lint rules.
Normalisation - Friend or Foe
Explore database normalisation techniques, their impact on table structure, and how to balance efficiency and performance in your projects.
PHP Under the Hood
Explore PHP's C internals to understand performance issues, examining tokenizing, string creation, opcodes, variables, and function calls for optimized coding.
Profiling PHP Applications
Explore techniques for measuring, analyzing, and optimizing PHP application performance, from backend profiling to frontend user experience, with practical tools and strategies.
Caching Best Practices
Explore caching best practices for PHP applications, covering techniques like 'biggest smallest reusable item' and automatic write-through caching to enhance performance and scalability.
Gathering Metrics With StatsD and Graphite
Explore gathering application metrics using StatsD and Graphite for PHP applications, covering setup, implementation, and analysis for improved performance monitoring and optimization.
Debugging HTTP
Explore HTTP debugging techniques using Curl, Wireshark, and Charles Proxy. Learn to inspect and troubleshoot web and mobile app communications, identify issues, and optimize performance.
PHP Opcache Explained
Detailed exploration of PHP's OPCache mechanism, covering its functionality, setup, and impact on performance. Includes in-depth analysis of PHP's engine and OPCache's interaction for effective acceleration.
PHP at the Firehose Scale
Explore Twitter's firehose data processing at scale, focusing on PHP's crucial role in handling 6,000 tweets per second and delivering them to partners within one second.
The Future of PHP Is in the Clouds
Explore PHP's evolution and its potential in cloud computing, focusing on distributed, scalable applications capable of handling massive traffic using virtualization and dynamic infrastructure management.
Rediscovering the SPL
Explore the power of PHP's Standard Library (SPL) with in-depth insights on iterators, data structures, and interfaces. Learn practical implementations and edge cases for advanced PHP development.
Running Your PHP Site on AWS Lambda
Explore serverless PHP applications using AWS Lambda, covering setup, testing, deployment, and performance optimization for robust API development.
From Dev to Prod with GitLab CI
Learn to build and maintain a Continuous Delivery pipeline using GitLab CI, Docker, Nexus, and Traefik. Explore deployment to dev, stage, and production environments through hands-on examples and best practices.
Theming WordPress
Learn to create custom WordPress designs using child themes, exploring benefits, setup, and step-by-step implementation for unique, upgrade-safe websites.
Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Playing "Developer"
Discover essential tips for new developers, covering technical skills, communication, and career growth. Gain insights to accelerate your professional journey in software development.
MySQL 8 - A New Beginning
Explore MySQL 8's major redesign, including data dictionary, windowing functions, JSON enhancements, and optimizer improvements for a better database experience.
Introduction to GraphQL
Explore GraphQL's power for API design and consumption, learning its advantages over REST and how to create and use GraphQL APIs in PHP.