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A queued closure is a serialised closure, with everything that implies

NoteJune 14, 20222 min read

Dispatching a closure is convenient and stores executable code in the queue, which is a different security and deployment posture from a job class. Running old code after…

The queue table that became a bottleneck at four million rows

Deep diveJune 3, 202210 min read

A database-backed queue that worked for four years. SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, and a lock wait timeout.

The report that ran on a replica and was three minutes stale

Deep diveMay 31, 202210 min read

Read routing added for capacity, and a report that disagreed with the dashboard. Two numbers, both correct, three minutes apart.

Asserting an event was dispatched, not that a mail was sent

NoteMay 31, 20221 min read

Testing the effect couples the test to the listener, and testing the event tests the thing the code under test is actually responsible for. The listener gets its…

Model events lie about who made the change

NoteApril 26, 20222 min read

An ORM observer sees that a row changed and has no idea who changed it or why, so it invents an actor from whatever ambient context exists. The…

Model::shouldBeStrict in development, and what it catches

NoteApril 13, 20222 min read

One call turns on three separate checks that each convert a silent misbehaviour into an exception. The third is the one with the largest immediate yield, because a…

The N+1 that was in the authorisation layer

Deep diveApril 4, 202210 min read

A policy check that loads the model’s owner, per row. 200 queries on a page with 50 items and correct eager loading.

Generated model docblocks go stale in a week

NoteMarch 10, 20221 min read

Model properties come from the database and the analyser cannot see the schema, so a generated docblock is the bridge and it drifts on the next migration. Generating…

Full-text search that did not need a search engine

Deep diveMarch 3, 202210 min read

A search cluster running for one feature on 40,000 rows. The operational cost was larger than the feature it served.

Flysystem 3 returns false less and throws more

NoteFebruary 23, 20222 min read

The filesystem abstraction moved from returning false on failure to throwing, and Laravel 9 wraps that in a setting rather than a change. Defaulting to the old behaviour…