From zero to infinite: the Final keyword

10 July 2020 Roberto Diana

10 minute read

Sometimes I do a full immersion on topics of my interest, generally related to programming, topics on testing, good design, etc. I apply a technique invented by me named: “Google from zero to infinite”.

Operators: an overview

6 May 2020 Andrea Rinaldi

9 minute read

Operators are useful constructors and they are present in most programming languages. They are fundamental for many operations and in this article we will provide an overview to better understand their properties.

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

18 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.