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Latest — Sep 22, 2024

Safely increase counting columns on your DB, on a concurrent environment

Think of the following case. You have a View model that counts views for different pages on your web application. You need to increase the views count when someone visits a page. How would you implement that? That sounds easy but it could be tricky if you do not care.

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Be aware of these things when it comes to Webhooks

Having webhooks in our apps now days is a very common practice. They are nothing more, than just regular HTTP endpoints, most of the times, just handling the POST method. Having them, we allow third party applications, to notify our system about events that took place on their end and

Vue.js - Documenting emitted events on your components

Emitting events from our components is a great way to notify the parent component about something that happened on the child and pass any additional data needed. It can get messy tho, from times to times. This has been written specifically for Composition API but the same applies on Options

Exception vs Error vs Throwable

Exception and Error are 2 different special classes provided by PHP that implement Throwable interface. They are special because they can be used with throw keyword. But what's the difference and what should you use? The answer is, as always, it depends. public function handle(): void { try { $x

Atomic locks in Laravel explained for humans

Atomic Locking is a way of saying, "only one person can perform X operation at a time". In engineering terminology, it's a way to handle race conditions. Race conditions occur when multiple processes attempt to access the same resource at the same time, and this some

Testing private methods. How? Should we?

Testing public methods is straight forward, since they are accessible from anywhere. So they will be, in our test cases too. But what about when it comes to private methods? This is a common question. First of all, I will show how we can test them, and secondly if we

Using Dependency Injection and Service Container can make testing easier. But how?

Using Service Container and Dependency Injection, makes testing easier. But how? On this article I would like to focus on that, with a simple and straight forward example. We are going to see that it's difficult (if not impossible) to test an dependency correctly without them. To avoid

My point of view on DTOs pattern with Laravel

In our applications, we often need to transfer data inside our codebase, from point A to point B. Point A and point B can be different technical entities inside our code. Now days it's all about data. Examples of data transfers that we may need on a Laravel

Be able to solve common CORS errors, hassle-free

CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a feature built into browsers for extra security. By default, you won't be allowed to make request from a browser, to a domain that differs from the origination domain. So, if your domain is mysite.com, you can't fetch data from

Use the correct order on expected and actual parameters when making assertions

PHPUnit allows you to do basic assertions when testing your app. For our example we are going to use one basic, the assertSame assertion. This does a strict check on our values and passes when the 2 values are exactly the same, and they have the same type. Let'

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