What are interfaces, otherwise known as contracts in PHP?
Interfaces - often known as contracts - felt like a big leap in the early days of programming. But it's good to know - they're not that scary!
Running Laravel's queue worker using a cron schedule
Queues are a powerful tool in the Laravel framework. Inherently, they require some setup - but what about smaller projects?
Using Laravel's sleep helper to save time
API's can be a pain - throttling is an issue you'll often encounter, particularly with large datasets. One workaround is to enforce delays between execution
Creating helper functions in Laravel
A quick tip for adding globally available 'helper methods' in Laravel
Using Laravel's Lottery helper to rate limit error reporting
I thought I'd share this quick tip as I'm in the process of building a system that handles large quantities of data. And with that, comes errors!