Practical concrete practices, tooling, perf, DX and experience retrospectives.
For the past few months, I’ve been working on AstMetrics, a tool foranalyzing source code of software projects at scale, regardless of the programming language.
I wanted to see the big picture of PHP code in the wild, so I went all in. I downloaded the entire PHP ecosystem - a whopping 236 GB of Git repositories. There is the result of my analysis.
10 years after starting the development of PHP Metrics, I think it’s time to start something new, more modern… and more ambitious.
Today I want to talk about a tool that I now use almost every day: Protocol Buffers (or ProtoBuf for short).
Composer, NPM… so many tools to manage the technical dependencies of our projects. That’s good. But what about managing the licenses of the downloaded files? And what about the free or open source media (images, sounds,...
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