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Article Series: PHP 8.x

PHP continues to be one of the most widely used scripting languages on the web with 77.3% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known using it according to w3tech. PHP 8 brings many new features and other improvements, which we shall explore in this article series.

Deepak Vohra
on Jan 30, 2023
Development

The Six Ways of Optimizing WebAssembly

While Wasm was originally designed for the browser, it turned out to be useful for embedded programming, plugins, cloud, and edge computing. For all these use cases, performance is tremendously important and is greatly impacted by file size. In this article, we’ll look at six ways to optimize Wasm for performance and file size.

Matt Butcher Radu Matei
on Jan 26, 2023
Development

PHP 8 - Type System Improvements

In this article we will discuss extensions to the PHP type system introduced in PHP 8, 8.1, and 8.2. Those include union, intersection, and mixed types, as well as the static and never return types. Additionally, PHP 8 also brings support for true, null, and false stand-alone types.

Deepak Vohra
on Jan 20, 2023
Culture & Methods

Why Team-Level Metrics Matter in Software Engineering

In a world where everything can have perspective, context and data, it doesn’t make sense to limit that to just part of your software development process. The DORA metrics can provide insight into the health of your development environment, where value is being delivered and opportunities for improvement. Metrics must be used with careful insight to separate the signal from the noise.

Ian Phillipchuk
on Jan 17, 2023
Development

Proven Solutions to Five Test Automation Issues

Automated testing is often blocked due to some well-known issues, especially in a microservices architecture. API and service simulators can eliminate five common issues that block test automation.

Wojciech Bulaty
on Jan 16, 2023
Development

InfoQ Software Trends Report: Major Trends in 2022 and What to Watch for in 2023

2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch for in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.

Daniel Bryant Wesley Reisz Thomas Betts Shane Hastie Srini Penchikala
on Jan 13, 2023
Java

Securing a Kafka Cluster in Kubernetes Using Strimzi

Deploying an Apache Kafka cluster to Kubernetes is easy if you use Strimzi, but that’s only the first step; you need to secure the communication between Kafka and the consumers and producers, provide RBAC to access topics, spread the secrets correctly to Kafka Connect components and all using a Kubernetes GitOps way.

Alex Soto
on Dec 30, 2022
Architecture & Design

Microservices Integration Done Right Using Contract-Driven Development

Build your microservices and micro-frontend in parallel and deploy them independently without worrying about integration issues, by leveraging API specifications such as OpenAPI and AsyncAPI as executable contracts to shift left the identification of compatibility bugs with Contract Driven Development using Specmatic, thereby removing the need for integration testing.

Naresh Jain
on Dec 29, 2022
Development

The Service and the Beast: Building a Windows Service that Does Not Fail to Restart

Windows Services play a key role in the Microsoft Windows operating system, and support the creation and management of long-running processes. When “Fast Startup” is enabled and the PC is started after a regular shutdown, though, services may fail to restart. The aim of this article is to create a persistent service that will always run and restart after Windows restarts, or after shutdown.

Michael Haephrati Ruth Haephrati
on Dec 28, 2022
Development

PHP 8 – Functions and Methods

PHP 8.0 adds support for several functions- and methods-related features, including enhanced callable syntax, named function arguments, and Fibers, which are interruptible functions that add support for multitasking.

Deepak Vohra
on Dec 23, 2022
Culture & Methods

How Behaviour-Driven Development Helps Those with Sleep Disorders Contribute Effectively

Invisible illnesses, including sleep disorders, are prevalent in the workplace. Teams that are open and accepting of those with sleep disorders benefit in their planning accuracy and quality practice from diverse viewpoints. An open and welcoming team culture plays a large part in helping team members overcome challenges.

Dermot Canniffe
on Dec 22, 2022
Java

GraalVM Java Compilers Join OpenJDK in 2023, Align with OpenJDK Releases and Processes

The Community Editions of the GraalVM JIT and Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilers will move to OpenJDK in 2023. They will align with OpenJDK releases and processes. Existing releases, GraalVM Enterprise Edition, and other GraalVM projects will not. GraalVM 22.3 provides experimental support for JDK 19 and improves observability. Project Leyden will standardize Java AOT compilation.

Karsten Silz
on Dec 21, 2022

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