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PHP Serverless With Bref on AWS Lambda: Cold Starts, Layers & Cost

01October 11, 2023 · 17 min readTooling

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PHP Serverless With Bref on AWS Lambda: Cold Starts

Guide to running Laravel/Symfony on Lambda via Bref, covering layer management, cold start mitigation, and real-world cost analysis.

PHP
Bref
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Laravel

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Newest production notes across Laravel, PHP, databases, security, performance, debugging, and release work.

92October 9, 2023 · 14 min readDebugging

Debugging Third-Party Libraries: When the Bug Is Not Your

Guides developers through diagnosing bugs inside dependencies - reading source, bisecting versions, writing minimal reproducers, and filing useful issues.

PHP
Debugging
Composer
Dependencies

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93September 30, 2023 · 21 min readOpen Source

How Open Source Shaped the Modern Internet: A History

Traces the infrastructure of the modern web - Linux, Apache, OpenSSL, PostgreSQL, and Git - showing how freely shared code became the foundation everything else runs on.

Open Source
Internet History
Linux
Apache

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94September 29, 2023 · 14 min readSecurity

Implementing OAuth 2.0 in PHP: Authorization Code Flow

Full implementation of OAuth 2.0 authorization code + PKCE flow in PHP, authorization endpoint, token exchange, and refresh logic.

PHP
OAuth 2.0
PKCE
Security

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95August 22, 2023 · 19 min readClean Code

How to Develop an Eye for Elegant Code: A Skill-Building

Outlines a deliberate practice path - reading great codebases, performing kata exercises, and seeking feedback to develop aesthetic code judgment.

PHP
Clean Code
Practice
Refactoring

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96August 20, 2023 · 18 min readLanguage Evolution

How Docker Changed the Way Developers Think About

Argues that Docker's container model did not just solve deployment - it fundamentally shifted how developers conceptualise application boundaries, dependencies, and reproducibility.

Language Evolution
Docker
Containers
DevOps

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97August 20, 2023 · 16 min readDebugging

When the Bug Is Not Where You Think It Is: Classic

Examines common misdirection patterns - symptoms in module A caused by bugs in module B - and how to retrace assumptions when a trail goes cold.

PHP
Debugging
Troubleshooting
Root Cause Analysis

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98August 7, 2023 · 13 min readTooling

Building CLI Tools With PHP and Symfony Console Component

Creates a feature-rich CLI application with commands, progress bars, table output, interactive prompts, and PHAR compilation.

PHP
Symfony Console
CLI
PHAR

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99July 22, 2023 · 18 min readOpen Source

Forking as a Feature: How Disagreement Drives Innovation

Reframes the fork not as a failure of community but as a vital mechanism - exploring famous forks like MariaDB, LibreOffice, and Node/io.js and what they produced.

Open Source
Forks
Governance
MariaDB

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Production contextArticles focus on live-application problems: slow queries, fragile releases, unclear ownership, failed jobs, admin workflow friction, and code paths that are hard to review.
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