Streams have a great deal of synonymy with popular use-cases like live video consumption and live audio streaming. They are essentially data artifacts that allow those who choose to use them (YouTube and Deezer per the example cited) to instantaneously incrementally process large data blocks (video and audio files) as…

Combining synchronous PHP code — which accounts for the lion’s share of the language’s API — with asynchronous language routines is a tricky proposition. The two suites of artifacts are antipodes of each other. Whereas the former makes I/O less arduous by running in an event-driven environment, the latter conditions…

This text is the first in a series of articles whose purpose is to demonstrate how to build apps that combine the multiple potencies of ReactPHP and ReactJS. Introduction There exists a plethora of stacks — combinations of technologies (languages and-or frameworks) typically canonized as fancy abbreviations reflective of individual…

After five elucidatory posts about Functional Programming in PHP, I decided to include the rest of the series I — at the time — foresaw continuing as a series of blog posts, much like this one, in an eight-chapter opus. Upgrading, and therefore, improving the quality of the offerings of…

https://play.ht/articles/a5f8df9b0ffb There is a plethora of data structures in the Computer Programming discourse: everything from the quintessential primitives — integers, floats, strings, and the like — to composite types, amalgams of the aforestated primitives — linked lists, objects, and arrays, among others — are essential in crafting a variety of…

If you have given some of my earlier blog posts enough heed to attempt to understand the amalgam of PHP-implementable ideas at their core, you might notice my passion for CouchDB. I find that CouchDB interactions are apt for a period defined by a web-service zeitgeist: the service’s REST…

In retrospect, 2018 delivered a plethora of Hip Hop music. Notable album releases in every month of the year ensured a ubiquity of the genre of Hip-Hop. After listening to multiple records many times throughout the year, I settled on a list of albums that I feel — warrant…

PHP is on an upward trajectory — the more recent improvements to the language are a testament to this postulate. Preloading — a feature inspired by the Java Hotspot Virtual Machine — is yet another enhancement to the PHP runtime. Initiated as an RFC by Dmitry Stogov, preloading presents…

My passion for Functional Programming is no esoteric subject. The book I recently finished is not only emphasis of my genuine state of enamoredness but is also a symbol of a nascent willingness to blossom as a software engineer. …