This is my response to a post that popped up on WIX’s engineering blog: http://blog.wix.engineering/2015/12/10/scaling-to-100m-mysql-is-a-better-nosql/ The original author provided absolu...
Today we’re announcing Kevlar will be open source. Kevlar is a highly customizable caching system for Magento EE with full (parallel) support for Akamai, CloudFlare and Varnish nodes. Designe...
In a fast-moving engineering culture, the ability to quickly push production data to different environments is critical for productivity. This becomes more than just a giant roadblock. If ...
If you are retaining cart data indefinitely you will eventually run into table locking issues as your customers attempt to interact with either cart or checkout within your Magento store. Loc...
maintenr : > > > > Today, we’re excited to bring you Maintenr > for Android. > > We’ve already seen more than 400 beta users join Maintenr > to take contro...
Instafeed package contains an extremely simple API adapter for Instagram that you can easily extend. The http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/tags/ end-point support is available out of th...
Judy array (as explained on http://judy.sourceforge.net/ ) is a C library that provides a state-of-the-art core technology that implements a sparse dynamic array. Judy arrays are declared si...
As some of you may know, I’m crazy about speed. So when I saw that people were happily using Predis as their choice of PHP client for Redis, I was a bit confused. Why use a client written...
I received few inquires for a technical run down of how Memcached wrapper handles expiration of keys. When I first read about this concept, it was pretty hard to understand since most of ...
This package provides a way to store your application files in Memcached pool with automatic parsing using eval() upon retrieval. I wrote this after trolling a friend of mine how storing file...
I updated my Memcached wrapper and moved away from a static approach to a more dynamic approach that supports multiple pools (as some of you requested). Also the wrapper will now pass any direct ...
I recently got to play around with Magento (eCommerce platform based on Zend Framework) and had to figure out default billing and shipping information for all of our current clients. Apparent...
If you interact with any of Amazon’s Web Services using PHP you should be using their SDK . It’s very powerful and pretty simple to get started with. In my case I did not want to checkout...
Just a quick announcement that I updated my PHP 5 client for Cloud Servers™ API. Some of the major fixes include retry limiting for authentication requests, support for updated response cod...
I have pretty high standards when it comes to code and felt like the current PHP 5 library that Twilio offered did not really fit well with modern frameworks. So I decided to rewrite it, if you...
I decided it’s time to start posting (interesting) questions I receive from time to time; today's question will be about binary search in PHP. Since it seems that there are multiple of dis...
Facebook released updated Roadmap SDK/OAuth 2.0, you can read more about it here: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/525/ I will keep a close eye on it, since the change-set will affect ...
New simplified upload form Ability to combine images into an album Improved member section Ability to modify images and albums Introduction of albums We are pleased to announce a set of...
When developers optimize their applications, the usage of NOW() and other dynamic MySQL methods is often overlooked. The problem with using NOW() (and other identical methods) that the query ...
I made a quick modification to Facebook’s PHP SDK (v.3.0.0) that seamlessly integrates new token format that Facebook’s social plug-ins utilize. No need to settle for older (v2.2.x...