Although Next.js comes with three built-in caching layers—Data Cache, Full Route Cache, and Router Cache—I wanted to give Redis a test drive to evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of adding an explicit Redis caching layer between a frontend and a backend.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.A Step-by-Step guide on how to migrate a DDEV projects' MySQL/MariaDB database to Postgres 17 and re-configure DDEV.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.If you have installed Gitlab to use a subdomain such as gitlab.example.com you can activate Gitlab Pages on the same server quite easily: I did actually run into OAuth errors, initially. This was caused by Gitlab Settings in the Admin area. Head to Admin > Applications and click the Edit icon next to Gitlab Pages. […]
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.While preferring virtualised development environments using Docker and DDEV, sometimes I work with projects that utilise the Symfony CLI, Valet or PHPs built-in web server. What all of these have in common: they use the locally installed PHP on your macOS. Here's how I added xdebug to it on a Apple Silicon.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Let's say you have a PHP Project that is based on Composer. You have found a bug in a vendor package and you need to fix it. What do you do? In this article I want to list a couple of options you have and outline differences, as well as look at each options Pros and Cons.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.The following YAML file is a basic (slightly simplified and opinionated) representation of the HTML5 specifications. I’m not sure if this is useful to anyone, but hey… you have found this page. My specific use-case for an HTML5 specification was code-generation. I use it to generate Storybook stories for each and every HTML5 element and […]
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