Pagination performance in Symfony Paginated lists with large tables can lead to slow SQL queries. In this article, I share some of the tricks I use to keep things speedy.
Moving from AWS to Heroku A few months ago, I migrated an enterprise website from AWS to Heroku to increase reliability. Here's how that went and what I learned from it.
The duality of /bin/sh A few weeks ago, I ran a shell script on an Ubuntu server and it didn't produce the same result as on my laptop. The reason for its behavior surprised me.
Fearless composer updates Updating Composer dependencies in PHP projects all the while avoiding regressions can be daunting. Here's a quick trick I use to ease the process.
Memory management with Symfony commands Making changes to large databases in Symfony projects usually requires a command. Keeping it free of "Out of memory" errors takes some work.
Learning about data science This week, I took Coursera's crash course on data science from Johns Hopkins University. From the use of statistics to the structure of a data science project, here's what I learned.
Endianness and the coin toss Computers can be little or big endian. Wondering what endianness is all about, where it originated from and its impacts on code performance? I was too.
Rooster's "30 Days Of Tests" Rooster is a simple password manager for geeks. After 2 years of development, its feature set is complete and it's time to add automated tests to the mix.
Dotfiles backup and restore As software engineers, we spent time improving our tool. It is important to backup this time so that it doesn't go to waste.
Arch Linux, Luks and the Thinkpad W541 Setting up the Thinkpad W541 with Arch Linux and full-disk encryption was a bit daunting. So I wrote down some notes during the process. Here they are.
x86-64 assembly from scratch I've worked mostly on web development projects and I want to learn about languages that are closer to the metal. So, this week, I'm taking the deep dive into x86-64 assembly.
Elf from scratch This week, I'm learning about ELF, the binary file format for Linux, BSD and others. As we will see, it is full of interesting information and will serve as a good introduction to assembly programming.