Facile.it Engineering

Common problems faced by PHP developers in consuming an AMQP message

29 May 2019 Dario Cancelliere

12 minute read

When we use RabbitMQ and our project is in PHP, we have to run a Consumer and we could encounter some common and still unresolved problems.

Continuous deployment from GitLab CI to Kubernetes using Docker-in-Docker

6 February 2018 Alessandro Lai

19 minute read

In the last month, I’m working on two different PHP projects here at Facile.it: in the first one, which is new and still in development, I decided to adopt GitLab CI for the build, since we use GitLab CE for our Git repositories; I then created a continuous deployment pipeline for the staging environment, directly to a Kubernetes cluster, leveraging Docker Compose to make the configuration easier.

Is it all PHP OPCache's fault?

4 October 2017 Salvatore Cordiano

13 minute read

Upon migrating to a new infrastructure we started experiencing cache issues after each deploy: as we refreshed pages that were updated by the new release, we didn’t see the right content for a very short period of time. Initially, we wrongly assumed that the cause of this issue was the PHP OPcache extension but, after our investigation, we understood that real path cache was the culprit.

How to gradually upgrade toward PHPUnit 6 with namespaced classes

12 September 2017 Alessandro Lai

7 minute read

In the latest months I wrote multiple times, in different projects, code migrating PHPUnit toward major version 6. This upgrade is harder than the previous one, since in this version it was introduced a big breaking change: all classes got (finally!) namespaced.

Why type hints and interfaces are not visual debt

31 May 2017 Alessandro Lai

11 minute read

A few days ago I stumbled on a strange tweet that was highlighting a controversy about scalar type hints.