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Redis 7.2, and the client-side caching I did not use

NoteSeptember 21, 20232 min read

Tracking mode lets Redis invalidate a client’s local cache, which is a genuinely good feature and is not free in PHP. The feature suits an application server with…

using, and a resource that closes itself

NoteSeptember 21, 20232 min read

Explicit resource management arrived in TypeScript 5.2, which is a try/finally that cannot be forgotten. The disposal happens at the end of the enclosing block rather than the…

Pattern categories, and an editor who stopped filing tickets

NoteSeptember 21, 20232 min read

Thirty patterns in one flat list, so nobody could find the one they wanted and everybody asked for a new one. The description field is the one people…

Composer 2.6, and audit as a pipeline step

NoteSeptember 21, 20232 min read

The audit command has been there since 2.4 and had never been run by anything except a person remembering to run it. Two of the four were noise…

A repository interface, one implementation, one fake

NoteSeptember 21, 20232 min read

The argument that an interface with one implementation is waste ignores that the test double is a second implementation, and the argument that the double justifies it ignores…

Import blocks, and the resources we had been pretending to manage

Deep diveSeptember 21, 202310 min read

Terraform 1.5 in June, and an import that is part of the plan rather than a side effect. Fourteen resources created by hand in 2019.

A value object library, and the day it needed a serializer

Deep diveSeptember 20, 202310 min read

A Money type, an Email type, and thirty more, none of which can cross a boundary without being unwrapped by hand.

An outbox, and the publisher we removed from the transaction

Deep diveSeptember 20, 202310 min read

An order committed and an event never published, twice in one week. A broker call inside a database transaction, and a rollback after it.

Testing a queue by asserting the payload, not the effect

NoteSeptember 20, 20232 min read

A test that dispatched a job and then asserted on the database is testing two things and failing for two reasons. Splitting at the queue boundary is the…

A JSON column that had become a schema

Deep diveSeptember 20, 20239 min read

A settings column with forty keys, four of which are queried, and a WHERE on a JSON path scanning two million rows.