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March 2024

Working with DynamoDB in Laravel

When building your Laravel applications, you may sometimes need to use a NoSQL database to store and retrieve data. One popular choice is Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed, serverless, and highly scalable NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, we'll take a brief look at DynamoDB. We'll then delve into how to use DynamoDB as a cache store in Laravel, and how to store Laravel models in DynamoDB using the baopham/laravel-dynamodb package.

A comprehensive guide to PHP file operations

Everything you do when using computers is related to files and folders. The browser you're using to view this webpage is a file on your device, and this webpage is a file on this website's server, which means everything is a file one way or another. In this article, you will learn everything you need to know to build files and folder-related features in your PHP applications.

Building command-line applications in Python

If you are into programming, you might have used commands like cp, mv, cat, etc, to perform different operations using a text interface like bash or Windows PowerShell. This article discusses implementing command-line applications in Python with functionalities such as keyword arguments, flags, positional arguments, and mode selection. It also discusses how to implement the Linux head command in Python.

Let's build a Hanami app

Hanami is a relatively new full-stack Ruby web framework. Unlike Rails, which has many default assumptions about how an app should be built, Hanami promises developer freedom by not imposing too many such defaults. The framework is also blazingly fast due to its low memory footprint and focus on minimalism. Combine that with a focus on strict abstractions, and you get a fully-featured Ruby framework that could rival Rails for building some applications, such as APIs and micro-services.

How to deploy a Rails app to Render

There are many ways to deploy a Ruby on Rails application to the internet. Between hosting on your own hardware, renting a virtual machine, using a cloud provider, and using a platform, the opportunities are endless. The low-hassle way to host a Rails application is to use a Platform as a Service (PaaS). In this article, we'll show you how to deploy a Rails Application to Render.com, and as a bonus, monitor it with Honeybadger! You can find the final project here on Github.