PHP & Software Engineering Blog

When to use Traits in PHP

July 30, 2022 5 min read Php, Softwaredevelopment

Traits are a newer concept to PHP and are a bad compromise to bypass single inheritance in PHP. Read more about Traits and alternatives.

April 9, 2022 5 min read Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Structures, Softwaredevelopment

Data Transformation is a central requirement for software system. Benthos is an easy and plug & play solution for data transformation.

June 21, 2021 5 min read Keestash, Product

Introducing Keestash, my own password manager as a Software-as-a-Service product. Keestash is free and Open Source.

January 20, 2021 5 min read Check24, Php, Softwaredevelopment

Legacy code can be very challenging. However, the migration from legacy to modern frameworks such as Laminas (Zend) is very exciting.

January 13, 2021 5 min read Algorithms, Data Structures, Softwaredevelopment, System Design

In this post, I want to address scalable system design and how to grow a system while it's user base grows.

May 23, 2020 5 min read Php, Softwaredevelopment

I set up a home server and manage it with puppet. This blog summarizes the setup step by step and shows my learnings.

November 28, 2019 5 min read Php, Softwaredevelopment

This blog post is part of preparation for a computer science interview in big tech. Summarizing my computer science skills in a blog post.

November 9, 2019 5 min read Check24, Mysql, Php, Softwaredevelopment

A brief summary of how to migrate large databases to MySQL 5.7 and steps upgrading MySQL while keeping production up and running.

October 9, 2019 5 min read Php, Softwaredevelopment

PHPAlgorithms is released in version 1.0.0. Read about the improvements and breaking changes for this stable release.

September 13, 2019 5 min read Php, Projekte, Softwaredevelopment

A feature that a colleague and me were developing has caused us to stumble across an interesting and edge case problem with PHP exceptions.