June 30, 2023

mglaman.dev – June 30th, 2023

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My latest blog post

Some tricks for profiling AJAX requests on your Drupal site.

Profiling Drupal AJAX requests

One of my favorite development tasks is performance engineering. I love taking an application and analyzing it to increase performance. Application performance monitoring (APM) tools like New Relic and Blackfire.io are tools every developer should have in their toolkit. New Relic is for passive performance monitoring of your application in production. Blackfire is for active performance monitoring and profiling in any environment.

Tips & tricks

"A small body of code has low inertia — it is easy and quick to change." - The Pragmatic Programmer

This week's live stream

phpstan-drupal maintenance work, focusing on a few bug fixes.

Twitch

mglaman went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Software and Game Development VOD now.

Interesting links

• Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
  • Jeff Geerling published the 41st edition of Ansible for DevOps. With it, he open-sourced the manuscript and licensed it CC BY-SA.
• The Drupal Open Web Manifesto
  • Dries announces the Drupal project's Open Web Manifesto, which comes on the heels of Drupal being recognized as a Digital Public Good.
• Meta developer tools: Working at scale
  • Meta (Facebook) has created a lot of developer tooling, including Phabricator (in PHP!) I always enjoy reading how companies at enormous scale solve engineering problems.

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