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Sharded pub/sub, and the cluster that could not broadcast

Deep diveApril 25, 20229 min read

A broadcast that goes to every node on every publish. Classic pub/sub does not scale in a cluster, and 7.0 gives channels that respect slots.

Ubuntu 22.04 and the OpenSSL 3 that broke your extension

NoteApril 20, 20222 min read

22.04 in April ships OpenSSL 3, and a PHP extension compiled against 1.1 does not load against it. The extension case is a rebuild and is straightforward once…

Redis functions replace the Lua scripts nobody could version

Deep diveApril 12, 202210 min read

7.0 in April, and a script registry that survives a restart. EVAL with a SHA nobody can map back to source.

A generator’s return value needs getReturn, exactly once

NoteApril 5, 20222 min read

A generator may return a value as well as yielding, and the value is only readable after the generator has finished. The pattern is useful for a summary…

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.

A path repository, for the package you are writing today

NoteMarch 28, 20222 min read

A path repository symlinks a local directory into vendor, so a change to the package is visible immediately without a version, a tag or a push. The symlink…

Boolean mode, and the relevance that is not a ranking

NoteMarch 10, 20221 min read

Boolean mode has no fifty per cent threshold and no meaningful relevance score, so results come back in whatever order the index produced them. The scoring being a…

The test suite that took twelve minutes and now takes ninety seconds

Deep diveMarch 8, 202210 min read

Twelve minutes, six times a day, per developer. Nobody ran it locally, so it only ever failed in CI.

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.

Symfony 6.1 lets a controller return a plain object

NoteMarch 2, 20222 min read

6.1 adds argument and return value resolution that removes the serialisation boilerplate from a controller action. Moving serialisation out of the action makes the controller shorter and moves…