Drupal 10 – Entity Types, hooks, DI, headless via JSON:API, comparison with WP and Magento
Drupal 10 is a significantly more modern platform than its reputation suggests. The rewrite to Symfony components, a proper DI container, and a composer-first approach happened years ago. Drupal 10 adds PHP 8.1+ requirements, drops old dependencies, and has CKEditor 5 and Olivero as defaults. I show Drupal 10 through the lens of a PHP developer familiar with Magento 2 and Symfony.
- Published in PHP
Laravel vs Symfony – DI, Doctrine vs Eloquent, when to choose which
Laravel and Symfony are the two dominant PHP frameworks, and choosing between them is a real decision in every new project. They share a Symfony core (Laravel uses several Symfony components) but have fundamentally different philosophies: Symfony favours explicitness and flexibility, Laravel favours convention and developer ergonomics. I compare them where it matters most for a PHP developer making an architecture choice.
Magento 2 performance – OPcache, Redis, N+1 queries, Blackfire, priority table
Magento 2 performance is a broad topic, but the high-impact improvements follow a clear priority order. OPcache configuration is free and immediate. Redis correctly configured reduces PHP cycles. N+1 queries are the single biggest source of slowness in custom code. Blackfire makes the invisible visible. I show a prioritised approach with concrete configurations and code examples.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce
TypeScript for the PHP developer – types, interfaces, generics, async/await
TypeScript is to JavaScript what strict_types + PHPStan is to PHP – it adds a type system on top of a dynamically typed language and catches errors before runtime. For a PHP developer the concepts are familiar: interfaces, generics, union types. I show the most important TypeScript features from the perspective of someone who thinks in typed PHP daily.
- Published in JavaScript