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...

In the evolving landscape of software development, modular monolith architectures have gained significant traction. This approach offers a balanced middle ground between traditional monolithic appl...

Today, each of us has many possibilities to check the current time. We have smartphones, watches, computers, TVs, refrigerators, ovens, etc. Everyone knows what a year is and what it signifies. We ...

Having a profiler and performance monitoring is crucial for maintaining the efficiency and reliability of any application. Profilers help engineers identify bottlenecks by providing detailed insigh...

In the landscape of software testing, the choice between a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to mocking or utilizing mocking frameworks is a pivotal decision for programmers. While mocking is indispens...

While unit tests are known for their speed compared to integration tests, the latter offer heightened confidence in the system’s functionality. Thus, avoiding integration tests is not advisable; in...

Last time I’ve been analyzing the performance of Laravel’s container. I’ve encountered that the application spends a lot of time building dependencies, especially for heavy endpoints. That was stra...