Recently, Google introduced an exciting new feature to their Maps platform — the AerialView API. This innovative tool generates footage that resembles drone-captured video for a specified location. In my capacity as CTO, I’ve explored the potential of this API, contemplating its potential applications within our products at TenantCloud and…

Recently, I needed to download a website with content for offline access. This seems like a fairly trivial task, and it is for most simple websites. However, if you need to download a website whose content is hidden behind authentication, it’s a different story. There are various authentication methods, which…

This article is an updated version of Laravel 7 package development article Step 1. Create a new project I prefer using the Laravel installer. You can read more about the installation here: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/installation laravel new lara-dg I prefer using SQLite for testing and package development. Adjust your.env file DB_CONNECTION=sqlite DB_DATABASE=/Users/ivan/code/packages/test-project/database/database.sqlite

Recently AWS announced a long waited support of MySQL 8 for their RDS Aurora. Of course, you could use MySQL 8 engine on RDS way before, but Aurora has lots of good features like replication. Version 5.7 will be supported until Oct 2023 so you should think about migration in…

There are many-many variations of how you can deploy your app. Of course, it heavily depends on the type of app: whether it’s a simple one-page website or a high-load SAAS. I try to follow two main concepts when it comes to deployment: - it should be as automated as…

App autoscaling is not a trivial task as it might look. I was really excited when I read about Vapor. I would like to share my experience of playing with this great tool. Project size Our project is nearly 650Mb and Lambda has limitations of 250Mb unzipped. We had a…

There are a lot of amazing ready to use laravel packages on Github and packages. Every project uses open-source packages. The only problem with open source is the lack of maintenance as it is not a full time paid job for contributors. Laravel is a very rapidly developed PHP framework…

This article is an updated version of Larave 5.5 package development article Step 1. Create a new project I prefer using the Laravel installer. You can read more about the installation here: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/installation laravel new lara-dg I prefer using SQLite for testing and package development. Adjust your.env file DB_CONNECTION=sqlite DB_DATABASE=/Users/ivan/code/packages/test-project/database/database.sqlite

Testing is good. I’m a big fan of well tested code but nobody likes waiting tests to be finished. It is ok when you have a few hundreds of them or less. But when we reached a 2K number it became a really frustrating issue. In our case all integration…