Recently, in one of my projects, I got affected by a supply chain attack called Shai-Hulud that targeted npm packages. The interesting fact is that it happened to me in a PHP project. That’s why I...

Recently, I encountered an interesting case of a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that was caused by an innocent cache mechanism. We had some code that was invoked in the middleware, befor...

Some time ago, I was working on improving the performance of slow statistics. The problem was that our database contained billions of rows, making data retrieval slow, even for the last seven days....

Many companies use a microservices architecture. It has many advantages, but it also has some disadvantages. One of them is that the whole system becomes more complex, and end-to-end (E2E) testing ...

In most projects, there is a need to interact with some kind of database. There is an approach that we have a layer called repository which is responsible for saving and retrieving data from the d...

Recently I had a discussion about violating of some SOLID principles, which made me think about the goal of these practices, and other good practices in general. It forced me to think about it, bec...

Some time ago I took over the development of one module in a bigger application. The volume of requests in this module was quite small. However, I’ve noticed some strange deadlocks in logs. At firs...

In the last article, I compared two ORMs: Eloquent mostly related to Laravel, and Doctrine associated with Symfony. I presented a comparison on why reading data from the database would be much more...

ORMs are useful tools that help us save our objects to the database. However, there are some pitfalls, so it is important to know the tools we use. In this article, I want to focus on the poor perf...

Imagine an engineer tasked with updating a feature who makes changes across the entire codebase without a clear plan or structure. Instead of committing small, focused updates, they introduce a mas...