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on Aug. 6, 2020
Quick one here but today, thanks to Tez on Stack Overflow, I discovered that PHP's null coalescing operator (the double question mark operator) can fail when you use a function at any part of the statement.
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on May. 22, 2020
I've recently been working on an Apache Kafka/Confluent data pipeline to analyse event streams. I decided to use Google Cloud BigQuery for the data analysis as it seemed to be easy to get set up with and extremely powerful. But to get up and running I'd need to backfill all my existing data. I also…
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on Mar. 14, 2019
Odd one this, and one that took me a little while to debug. I recently set up a Confluent/Kafka data pipeline with transformations being handled by KSQL and data being produced by an application written in Go. As part of the test process I persisted data using a MongoDB Sink connector. The command…
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on Oct. 2, 2018
If you've ever written a test in golang, chances are you've used the testify package to make writing tests a breeze. An immensely useful extension of that is the mockery package, which gives you the ability to autogenerate testify mocks for interfaces with ease.
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on Jan. 31, 2018
I recently moved into some co-working space and I immediately had issues with the internet connection. My connection would be intermittent and would frequently drop; sometimes I had hours of uninterrupted connectivy, at other times it wouldn't last more than a few seconds without dropping completel…
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on Nov. 8, 2017
There's a bug with Eloquent's firstOrCreate() function where it doesn't work with the $casts attribute on the model; it will always either insert a new instance into the database or give a MySQL duplicate entry error.