Almost every development team claims to do code reviews.Far fewer can honestly say their reviews consistently improve code quality and developer productivity. In many teams, code review slowly turns into a source of frustration: pull requests pile up, feedback is…
Database logic is one of the hardest parts of an application to test properly. Not because it is exotic or complex, but because it sits at the intersection of business rules, data consistency, performance, and evolution over time. In real…
There is one refactoring pattern I apply regularly that rarely gets the attention it deserves. It does not look impressive.It also does not drastically change architecture.Nor does it introduce new abstractions everywhere. And yet, it prevents codebases from slowly collapsing…
Most development workflows don’t fail loudly — and that’s exactly why a broken development workflow is so hard to notice. They don’t collapse on day one. There is no dramatic breaking point where everyone agrees, “Yes, this process is broken.”…
Practical Strategies for Testing Real-World PHP Projects Testing legacy Laravel code without refactoring is one of the hardest problems in real-world PHP projects. Most of us don’t join greenfield projects. We inherit applications that grew organically over years, feature by…
When working on large PHP projects, especially ones involving multiple integrations or environments, one of the most common pain points is object creation. You might end up scattered with new statements all over your code, or repeating the same logic…
Modern PHP applications rely on many external components: APIs, databases, file systems, random generators, time providers, and services that communicate with the outside world.When writing tests, you rarely want to interact with these real services. Doing so would make your…
Hey there! Today I want to share a common problem I’ve faced many times in PHP projects: a method full of if/else if statements that handles different types of orders. You know the type—huge, unreadable, and almost impossible to extend…
One of the things I enjoy the most about Laravel is how it encourages writing clean, testable business logic.Laravel is a modern PHP framework -> that provides elegant tools for routing, validation, and testing — making it a great…
Have you ever stared at a messy codebase and wondered, “There must be a better way to organize this”? That’s exactly when design patterns in programming come into play. Design patterns are proven solutions to recurring problems in software design.…