About Me
Hi, my name is Areg and I am a web developer interested in the Laravel Ecosystem.
My main focus is on developing Laravel applications that have HTML at the core, are majestic monoliths and use boring LEMP stack technology.
Below is a list of development tools and services I use:
Tools
- Laravel - Rapid Application Development PHP web framework
- TALL Stack (Tailwind Alpine Laravel Livewire)
- livewire - Laravel Javascript framework for rendering server side components
- AlpineJS - Declarative JavaScript behavior framework
- Tailwindcss - Utility first CSS framework
- StimulusJS - MVC framework for organizing client side Javascript
- Turbolinks - Framework for Ajax loaded html pages
- Hotwire - The next version of TurboLinks
- Htmx - Framework for HTML attribute based Ajax (IntercoolerJS 2.0)
- Redis - In memory cache, queue and session server
- Elasticsearch - Full text search index server
- MySQL - Relational Database
- Mailhog - Email server (in docker for local development)
- VSCode - Lightweight editor and IDE
- PHPStorm - Powerful PHP IDE
- TablePlus - Database management GUI for MySQL, Redis and more
- Takeout - Docker container management for local development
Services
- PHPDocker.io - Docker compose file generator for local development
- ngrok - Secure public URLs for local webhook testing
- kanbanflow - Kanban board with Pomodoro timer
- DigitalOcean - Cloud deployment with managed MySQL database, managed Redis cluster and Managed Load Balancer
- Postmark - Transactional Email Service
- HoneyBadger - Exception, uptime, scheduled task and background job monitoring for Laravel
- Papertrail - Application log aggregator
- Cloudinary - Media file hosting and CDN service
- Amazon S3 - AWS Cloud Media file hosting
- Cloudflare - CDN front for Amazon S3
Process
- Always Deployed - continuous delivery guarded by feature flags
- Endpoint Driven Development - incremental feature development guarded by feature tests
- Trunk Based Development - continuous integration into master delivery branch
- No Estimates - because working software is the primary measure of progress
- Kanban - Agile done right with just in time work item pulling and work in progress (WIP) limits