A legacy report with no specification and forty branches cannot be unit tested, and it can be pinned: record what it produces today and fail when that changes.…
5 shipped the ability for one bundle to load modules from another at runtime, which is genuinely novel and solves a problem most applications do not have. The…
A full analysis on a large codebase takes long enough that nobody runs it before committing, so every finding arrives from CI after the context has been lost.…
Most brokers make a dead letter queue a convention assembled from routing rules; Beanstalkd has it as one of three verbs. A buried job sits in its own…
Registering a post type in functions.php ties the site’s content model to its appearance, so changing the theme deletes the URLs. Must-use plugins load before regular ones and…
An application resolved against PHP 7.4 and deployed to a 7.3 server used to fail at some arbitrary point inside a library, with an error nobody connects to…
A percentage-based canary needs a load balancer that supports weighting; a header-based one needs an nginx map and works anywhere. Deciding on a header means the team can…
A repository test against a mocked connection asserts that the code calls the methods you expected, which is a restatement of the code rather than a check on…