Architecture and Core

Today, PHP is not a tool used only for small web applications, but is also widely adopted in the enterprise applications market. The bigger and more complex the project, the more issues we [...]

Well designed and performant API's are key aspects of good and reliable application systems. Especially when kicking of an API system it is really hard to setup and define all boundaries that are [...]

Distributed systems offer scalability and flexibility, but they also introduce new challenges: networks fail, messages get delayed, lost, or duplicated, and some operations - like sending an email - cannot easily be undone. [...]

A common problem I have seen is that PHP apps grow faster than their data discipline. Most PHP engineers think about models, migrations, and relationships — but not about analytics. Yet as your [...]

We all have opinions about how PHP should be written. But what does the data say about how it actually is? In this talk, we dive into a large-scale analysis of real-world PHP [...]

As any programming language, PHP has a type system. Its type system has evolved over the years to become more complete and robust. PHP also has a notion of a subtype following Liskov's [...]