Learn essential GIT, NVM, and WP-CLI commands for WordPress development, including installation, automation, and troubleshooting. Written by Milana Cap.

Over the years, I've been involved with deploying web sites for many years, and also in pentests of many sites where I see lots of misconfiguration. Throughout this journey, I've witnessed firsthand the significant impact that protocol updates can have. The introduction of HTTP/2 fundamentally altered how we approach web service delivery, prioritizing efficiency and speed. Now, HTTP/3 is poised to do the same, ushering in a new era of web performance and potentially even security.

How coupling and communication shape architecture decisions. Compare monoliths and microservices and build more maintainable systems.

Explore Maestro, an AI coding agent built in PHP with Neuron AI, featuring tool approval, CLI workflows, provider support, and MCP.

An intensive camp for developers and architects. Learn modern software architecture through hands-on sessions and real-world scenarios.

This article explores how MySQL’s long-standing role as PHP’s default database is being challenged by PostgreSQL’s rapid rise in popularity. See why this shift has happened, what changes are shaping MySQL’s future, and how PHP developers can evaluate whether MySQL still makes sense for modern applications.

An intensive camp for developers and architects. Learn modern software architecture through hands-on sessions and real-world scenarios.

Secure multi-tenant PHP applications with PostgreSQL Row-Level Security, RLS policies, SET LOCAL, Laravel, Symfony, safe writes, and indexing.

HTML parsing has long been a pain point in PHP, especially when dealing with real-world, imperfect markup. This article shows how recent PHP releases change that story, introducing a modern HTML parser that accurately handles today’s web content, robust CSS selector support for element retrieval, and new DOM classes that align more closely with the official DOM specification. We will walk through practical examples in web scraping, content extraction, and HTML transformation, and you will learn how to migrate existing parsing code to benefit from these native improvements.

Rewriting your whole legacy PHP application can be really risky and heroic. With PHP 8 and a handful of well‑proven modernization patterns, you can evolve safely while the business keeps running. This article outlines a pragmatic approach I’ve used in production—Strangler Fig, Anti‑Corruption Layer, and Parallel Model - backed by tests, feature flags, and incremental upgrades.

How coupling and communication shape architecture decisions. Compare monoliths and microservices and build more maintainable systems.

AI makes it easier for designers and developers to work independently, but at the cost of collaboration, shared understanding, and stronger decision-making. In this article, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping the design-development relationship and how teams can use AI to move faster without losing ownership.

Learn when to use Strategy or Decorator in PHP, how they differ from Traits, and how object composition improves maintainability and testing.