All my posts about architecture.
In this sponsored talk given at Laracon India 2023, I demo all major Oh Dear features. After that, I share how the Laravel app behind Oh Dear is structured using domains.
The audio quality is not perfect, but it should still be understandable.
Before you write any code — ask if you could ever possibly want multiple kinds of the thing you are coding. If yes, just do it. Now, not later.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Have you ever heard of a “kill switch”—a device meant to disable machinery if its owner is incapacitated? Turns out you can also build kill switches into your code. Tony shares four kill switch examples for Laravel applications.
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– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.
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– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.
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In a standard Laravel application, you can schedule Artisan commands in your console kernel. While that works for most projects, we took a different route in Mailcoach. Instead of scheduling commands, we're scheduling jobs.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
As a system evolves, abstractions should arise from current needs, not future possibilities.
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– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
You'll learn the difference between "tactical" and "strategic" programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run.
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– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
Before we learn strategies for better software design, we must understand our enemy - complexity. Let’s define complexity, how to spot it, and what causes it.
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Dave Calnan has been using Remix in production for about 6 months now and has decided to add a Laravel backend to the stack. Here's what he's learned from the process.
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Laravel gives you the flexibility to choose the structure of controllers yourself, which is both a blessing and a curse. You won't find any recommendations in the official Laravel docs, so let's try to discuss various options, based on one specific example.
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– www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall
In Laravel 5.1 the Command Bus was replaced with Dispatchable Jobs, we can still use them but let us also look at how to add a Command Bus.
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– www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall
In a typical Laravel application we are very used to doing things in a certain way, by the book as they say. However there comes a point in the applications lifetime that it is going to be easier to start looking to split this code into Domains so that we can logically group our code.
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– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The Middleware Pattern allows you to easily change the input and output of an action; one layer at a time.
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Shawn McCool shares some interesting thoughts on how things should be named.
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The use of a message envelope has many benefits for the design of your application. It allows you to carry system information, nicely separated from domain information, in a generic way.
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Event-driven systems come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The obvious commonality is; they all use events to communicate information. These events come in many shapes and sizes, and determining what goes into an event has an immense impact on the design of your system.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
Validation takes on many shapes and forms. In this post, Frank walks you through all the possibilities.
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Matthias Noback shares some considerations on when you could rely on PSR abstractions
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Here's the recording of an excellent talk by Matthias Noback given at Socrates.
