Personal Blog of Alexandros Gougousis
Focusing on the wrong chapter Let s start with a groundbreaking(?) discovery. Concepts like Entities , Value Objects , Repositories , Services , referred as tactical patterns in DDD, are not discovered or originally proposed by DDD. They exist in the world of OOP before DDD[1]. The significant contribution of DDD is that it is enabling us to first think...
Today, we have a look inside the symfony/lock component. As stated in https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/lock.html , The Lock Component creates and manages locks, a mechanism to provide exclusive access to a shared resource. The given example describes the idea: $factory = new LockFactory($store); $lock = $factory->createLock('pdf-invoice-generation'); if ($lock->acquire()) { // The…
There is some confusion out there about which high-level programming languages are interpreted and which are compiled. And every time someone mentions that PHP is an interpreted one, many PHP developers seem like feeling a bit ashamed about it. Mostly because they think that PHP is the only, or one of the few, programming languages...
In this post, we explore a basic development environment setup using Traefik. Basic concepts Traefik is an open-source Edge Router. Edge means that is supposed to live and handle traffic on the edge of your network. It is not supposed to be used in routing internal traffic within your infrastructure but only traffic between external...
This is the second post about Swoole and it contains code samples that take advantage of Swoole asynchronous functions and coroutines. The first post can be found here. HTTP Requests Asynchronous 1: We put each request in a separate coroutine and pass them a channel through which they will pass to us the results of...
This first part will provide some basics on working with Swoole and it is meant to work as an introduction to the code samples we will include in the second part. Slowly but steadily, mostly in the last 5-6 years, PHP is making steps to the direction of asynchronous programming. Although ReactPHP was showing the...
In 2018, at last, MySQL (version 8) decided to add support to the famous SKIP LOCKED feature. Other RDBMS like Oracle and SQL Server support this feature for more than 15 years and PostgreSQL added support in 2016. If this is the first time you hear about this, it is a flag that tells the...
Let s start with a definition: a trait is a concept used in object-oriented programming, which represents a set of methods that can be used to extend the functionality of a class (Wikipedia) So, a set of methods. No properties. No extra state representation. After all, as you may know, this is the fundamental difference between...
Every piece of software contains literals (usually numbers, strings or booleans). These are values related to application configuration, parts of the business logic, natural or language constants, etc.. We have learned to replace many of these values with variables, constants or function calls for various reasons (security, manageability, readability, expressivity, ), which we are not going...
This is a problem that you may have run into at some point. Especially, if you had to display or print the components of a price using less decimals than the decimals used for the calculations. Cutting-off decimals after the calculation has taken place can lead to inconsistency between the summands and the sum. In...