Blogs about Back-end web development

Here’s an application of “test smarter, not harder”, as per Luke Plant’s post. I came up with this recently whilst working on my client Silvr’s project, and I’m pretty proud of it. It should apply …

Anyone who’s seen a couple different production database environments is likely familiar with the “soft deletion” pattern – instead of deleting data directly via DELETE statement, tables get an extra deleted_at timestamp and deletion is …

In recent years the .NET Team has been heavily advertising ASP.NET Core as one of the fastest web frameworks on the market. The source of those claims has always been the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks. Take …

Did you know that you can add custom aliases to the git command? I recently switched to a new Macbook and realised that I was missing some commands that it turns out I was using …

Today we're thrilled to announce that we have tagged the Laravel 10.0 release! Laravel 10 continues the improvements made in Laravel 9 by introducing argument and return types to all application skeleton methods, as well …

Once you’ve deployed your web app to prod there is a moment of satisfaction: a brief respite where you can reflect on your hard work. You sit, adoringly refreshing the homepage of www.mysite.com to watch …

Quart, an ASGI re-implementation of the Flask API has joined the Pallets organization. This means that future development will be under the Pallets governance by the Pallets maintainers. Our long term aim is to merge …

Recently I’ve been playing with a few different tools to make me more proficient when working with Kubernetes. Additionally, people that know me know I play lots of games – sinking more and more time …

As PHP continue to evolve with new breaking changes, and while that is great for most PHP applications, there are legacy applications that can't justify the human and financial cost of keeping up. Here is …

Automating the deployment of Android apps to Google Play, I believe is a must for teams with more than 1-2 people. Having the latest test version on your physical device, allows you to perform more …

A list of guidelines that I follow in every non-toy Django project I develop

This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage Python applications in as boring a way as possible. In the first post in the …