Explains the new image dimension validation rules in Laravel 5.3, including parameters like min_width, max_height, and ratio.
Explains why including a requirements.txt file in Python package releases helps document dependency versions for users and future maintainers.
A guide on migrating from Mandrill to SparkPost for transactional emails in a Laravel application, including setup and configuration.
A summary and analysis of Google's SRE book, contrasting traditional sysadmin roles with Google's Site Reliability Engineering approach.
An analysis of hiring biases in tech, where experienced candidates are rejected for not fitting a 'trendy' profile from elite schools.
A presentation explaining the 'Speed Index' web performance metric, including a video and slides from a conference talk.
Explains why sampling profilers fail at debugging tail latency and introduces Google's event tracing framework as a solution.
Analysis of Intel's strong 2015 market performance contrasted with the emergence of serious CPU bugs and the expectation of more in the future.
Explains how to implement API rate limiting using the new 'throttle' middleware in Laravel 5.2, including header responses.
Analyzes the debate between working at a startup vs. a big tech company, challenging common claims about earnings and career growth.
Explains how to validate HTML form arrays in Laravel 5.2, using a company/employee form example.
Explores how hardware latency, especially disk vs. network speeds, enables the concept of 'infinite' disaggregated storage in data centers.
Explains how Intel's cache partitioning technology enables higher server utilization by isolating workloads, based on Google's research.
A hiring manager at Tighten shares do's and don'ts for applying to their web developer jobs, based on reviewing hundreds of applications.
Analysis of how 'limping' or slow hardware nodes can severely degrade distributed system performance, based on academic research.
A deep-dive technical guide into Laravel Spark, an alpha-release tool for quickly building SaaS applications with Laravel.
A tutorial on JavaScript arrays covering creation, properties like length, and methods like push, concat, and join.
An analysis of Steve Yegge's surprisingly accurate tech predictions, including the rise of JavaScript and cloud hosting.
A guide for PHP developers to enhance Sublime Text 3 with packages and features to replicate the functionality of a full PHP IDE.
A guide to using Laravel 5.1's model factories to create fake data for cleaner and more efficient integration testing.
