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July 8, 2022
Simplifying containers with Laravel Octane
Containers are all the rage these days, but containerising PHP applications has always felt a bit… clunky. In the past, it’s been a choice between complex networking but efficient resource use...
ReadFebruary 5, 2019
Dynamically loading SVG files to build an Icon component with Webpack
Inline SVGs are great – you can manipulate them as you like, modify colours, easily transform them, and they look great in browsers (as opposed to icon fonts). However, in several projects now, in...
ReadJune 24, 2018
Adding custom claims to the Laravel Passport JWT
One of the advantages of using JSON Web Tokens as the transport for your authentication layer (such as OAuth) is that you can attach additional data in the form of public claims (see the relevant RFC...
ReadMarch 7, 2018
Debugging With Logs
When you develop your apps locally, you probably (hopefully) use something like Xdebug. However, how do you debug production and staging errors? The answer is logs. By sending log messages in...
ReadJanuary 28, 2018
Using VPC Peering to Share Internal Services on AWS
If you use AWS to run your infrastructure, you're likely to run your production and staging environments in different VPCs, or even different accounts altogether. However, if you want to run shared...
ReadJanuary 22, 2018
Setting up Xdebug for Docker Development in PhpStorm
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Big thanks to Luke Waite who did most of the heavy lifting to figure this out over at Intouch.
Do you still throw in dd(), or var_dump() and die() in your...
November 10, 2017
Request and Response Logging with Laravel: Debug Heaven
Debugging. Don't you just hate it when someone tells you your API isn't working? "I get some internal error", "it says not found", "it says not authorised even when I use the JWT". Yeah, bugs suck,...
ReadMay 11, 2017
Dead Simple Docker Development with Laravel
After recently talking about Docker and Vagrant on an episode of Larachat Live, I realised it'd probably be nice with a short little guide on getting started with Docker environments in Laravel...
ReadMay 21, 2016
Making Spark Your Own
This article was originally posted on Medium by Ahad L. Amdani Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own...
ReadMay 14, 2016
A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark
Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own Laravel Spark comes with a lot of features built in, but how does...
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