A failover procedure written in 2023 and executed for the first time on a Saturday in January. A runbook that has never been executed is a hypothesis, and…
A third person on the rota, and the artefact that makes a weekly rotation work. Three sections and a five-minute write-up is the whole mechanism, and it is…
A synced pattern with overridable blocks, used on forty-one pages, and what a year of editors using it produced. Detaching is a one-click operation with no confirmation and…
A trait providing a logger to eleven classes, each of which called a static accessor to get one. The trait was hiding a service locator behind a method…
A constraint added not for integrity, which was already sound, but because the relationship was undocumented anywhere else. A schema is the most-read document in an application and…
A rebuild time short enough that the index stops being something to protect. A derived store that can be rebuilt quickly does not need a backup, which removes…
Four array functions that every project had written as helpers, finally in the language. array_any short-circuits, which is the difference from array_filter followed by a count and matters…
Deprecating a method had been a docblock tag that only an IDE respected, and 8.4 makes it something the engine reports. It works on functions, methods, constants and…