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PinnedPublished inLevel Up CodingWhat is PHP Fibers?PHP Fibers is a relatively new feature introduced in PHP 8.1, designed to provide a lightweight and efficient way to handle asynchronous…Aug 20, 2024A response icon8Aug 20, 2024A response icon8
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Published inLevel Up CodingWhat Star Wars Taught Me About Leadership (and Why Yoda Would Be a Great Manager)I’ve been writing code and leading teams for more than a decade now. Along the way, I’ve read the usual management books, attended the…Oct 3Oct 3
Published inLevel Up CodingType Safety in PHP: How Far Should You Go?Type safety has become one of the hottest debates in the PHP community over the past decade. Once known as the “fast and loose” scripting…Oct 1A response icon1Oct 1A response icon1
Published inLevel Up CodingEvent Loops Explained: How PHP Handles Asynchronous I/OWhen most developers think of PHP, the first thing that comes to mind is its synchronous, request–response model: a PHP script runs from…Oct 1A response icon1Oct 1A response icon1
Published inLevel Up CodingCoroutines vs Fibers: What’s the Difference in PHP?PHP has come a long way from its early days as a simple scripting language for dynamic web pages. With the release of PHP 8.1, one of the…Sep 22A response icon1Sep 22A response icon1
Published inLevel Up CodingDeprecations in PHP 8.5: What Will Break & What You Should Migrate Away FromPHP 8.5 is slated for release on November 20, 2025, bringing a mix of new features, syntax improvements, and — as always — deprecations…Sep 22Sep 22