Avoiding Instantiating Invalid Entity Classes
At Infraspeak, the entire engineering team gets a couple of days, every month, to fully dedicate to pet projects. As me and my friend Nelson were working on our automations Bot, we were introducing the first Entities to our domains without noticing, at first, that we were creating invalid instances. This article shows why those…
Using The Singleton Pattern For Service Classes
A few weeks ago, during a mentoring session that I hosted with a few colleagues from work, we ended up talking about good examples of using the Singleton Pattern in software development. As we discussed, it appeared that this pattern was in the “no-no” box, for some reason, and labeled as an anti-pattern. I think,…
How to quickly upgrade PostgreSQL version using Docker
Learn how to quickly upgrade your PostgreSQL version and migrate your data using Docker.
Add control to JSON Web Tokens generation on Laravel Passport
How to quickly extend the default JWT generation behavior to add personalized claims and make it hold more relevant information.
Integrating Infraspeak’s API authentication on first-party clients
How we leveraged Laravel’s custom Guards and Providers on Place Checkup to authenticate users against our existent API service.
Stop Messing With The Hosts File
How to leverage Dnsmasq to route all local development traffic to localhost.
Continuous Integration with Bitbucket Pipelines
How we automated integration testing in a simple and effective way at Infraspeak.
Running a smooth Docker stack for Web Development
Docker is the best way to build, share and run applications in the cloud. There’re no doubts about that! You literally only have to configure your infrastructure once, programmatically, and can run on every cloud provider. It’s amazingly fast, too. No wonder that everyone is crazy about this technology and are using it to support…
There’s more to me than money: a Career!
This is a question which I’ve discussed, many times, with colleagues and friends, and I think it’s such an interesting topic that I wanted to share my opinion with you and, in return, I’d appreciate if you shared yours. So, please, feel free to comment. Although the answer seems petty easy to predict, I would…
How I managed to control chaos with Laravel
Automatizing fetching, normalizing and storing information from different online sources without breaking a sweat.
I Am José Postiga 