Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

Keith Adams was on Software Engineering Daily to discuss his time at Facebook and their usage PHP.

Last month I decided to finally dive in and learn about Kubernetes. Since then I have been spending my mornings listening to podcasts and audio resources about Kubernetes.

I have been following along with Kubernetes for the past few years. This year I have been paying more attention and have decided to pick up Kubernetes and give it a try. To get started, I picked up the audiobook version of The Kubernetes Book by Nigel Poulton.

ReactPHP is an event-driven non-blocking PHP framework that allows to you work in a long-running script through an event loop. At its core, ReactPHP provides an event loop and utilities to trigger events at specific intervals and run your code. This is different than normal PHP script execution which of a short lifecycle and per individual requests.  ReactPHP has been used to build web server applications, web socket servers and more. But, what if we used ReactPHP to execute operations and tasks on a Drupal application?

The end of May brought two exciting releases for PHPStan and the PHPStan Deprecation Rules extension. With the version of PHPStan v0.11.8, descriptions added to the @deprecated tag can be parsed and returned in rule checks.

You may have heard of Drupal Check. You may wonder what in the world it is or how it even came to be. I realized this went from an internal research and development task for a product, to open source contribution and then to an essential tool in the march toward Drupal 9. The timeline from January to DrupalCon in April has been pretty crazy, and I realized I have never done a proper blog post about Drupal Check.

It seems that I do a roughly annual update for ContribKanban and what I plan on doing with it. This year I evaluated its future and roadmap and how it can be more useful for the community at large.

Last month I wrote about writing better Drupal code with static analysis using PHPStan.

MidCamp, the Midwest Drupal Camp, is coming around the corner! March 20th through the 23rd, hundreds of Drupalistas will converge in Chicago for training workshops, contribution sprints, and sessions! This is one of my favorite conferences. The organizers put together so much thought and effort into each detail.

PHP is a loosely typed interpreted language. That means we cannot compile our scripts and find possible execution errors without doing explicit inspections of our code. It also means we need to rely on conditional type checking or using phpDoc comments to tell other devs or IDE what kind of value to expect.