Testing & QA

Лечение амнезии между AI-сессиями разработки

Статья о том, как решить проблему «забывчивости» LLM между AI-сессиями разработки. Рассматривается причина деградации контекста и предлагается практич…

OPC UA from PHP? Yes, with Zero C Extensions — Introducing php-opcua/opcua-client

If you've ever tried to connect a PHP application to industrial machinery — a PLC, a SCADA system, a historian — you've probably hit a wall. The OPC U…

How Architecture Tests Caught a Data Isolation Bug Before It Reached Production

TL;DR: Pest PHP architecture tests let you write your team coding rules as automated tests. Controllers using the DB facade directly? Build fails. Mod…

Migrating a PHP monolith in production: how I think about it

TL;DR — A security breach took down a site running on a 10-year-old Debian server with an obsolete LAMP stack. No access to the original infrastructur…

Building a Saju Engine: Case Study with Karina's Birth Chart Algorithm

The Data Problem K-pop Poses to Backend Engineers Here's a fun engineering challenge that landed on my desk last year: how do you build a production-g…

11 Middlewares and 6 Traits That Power a Multi-Tenant Laravel SaaS

Every request in a multi-tenant SaaS needs to answer a dozen questions before your controller runs. Which company context? Is the session valid? Is th…

Strauss: The Better Mozart for WordPress Plugin Dependency Isolation

Originally published at recca0120.github.io If you've read the }}">Mozart overview, you know what problem it solves: WordPress plugins share a PHP …

How to Reduce Magento 2 Bootstrap Time by 30%

Every time Magento handles a request, it loads hundreds of PHP classes, registers thousands of event observers, and wires up a plugin chain across the…

Magento 2 Core Web Vitals: How to Score 90+ on PageSpeed

Core Web Vitals are a Google ranking signal and a direct measure of your store's user experience. Most Magento stores score 30–50 on mobile PageSpeed.…

Best Magento 2 Performance Extensions in 2026

Performance extensions are one of the highest-ROI investments you can make on a Magento store. A 1-second improvement in load time can increase conver…

PHP to Go: The Mental Model Shift Nobody Warns You About

Book: Observability for LLM Applications · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal…

Building an XPath Query Tool in PHP — Slice XML Like a Pro

Building an XPath Query Tool in PHP — Slice XML Like a Pro A zero-dependency PHP CLI that queries XML files with XPath and outputs matching nodes as X…

phpcron: a tiny PHP CLI for poking at cron expressions

Every few months I end up staring at a crontab line wondering "is this actually going to fire when I think it will?" The usual answer is to open a bro…

Relay vs Laravel Reverb: A Real Performance Benchmark

We built Relay because we believed a WebSocket server written in Go would handle real-world connection loads more efficiently than one running in PHP.…

Past, Present, Future: The PHPUnit Story

ML CLI - M LHUILLIER FILE GENERATOR

GITHUB REPO ZheyUse / mlhuillier ML CLI (M Lhuillier) ML CLI is a Windows-first PHP command-line toolkit for scaffolding projects, managing a shared u…

I spent 10 years building a lightweight PHP framework for WEB application development

What do you think about ditching tags entirely and building web projects purely with classes? And having client-side and server-side code live togethe…

Symfony 7 and Sylius 2.0: What Changes for Developers

Sylius 2.0 is built on Symfony 7. For developers who've been running Sylius 1.x on Symfony 5 or 6, this means a significant stack modernization. Let's…

Top 10 Mistakes When Migrating Sylius to 2.0

After helping several teams plan their Sylius 1.x → 2.0 migration, I've seen the same mistakes come up again and again. Here are the ten most common p…