API gateways are great for development teams because they expose the data you need for all kinds of different purposes in a central location. There are a few great REST API gateways out there, like KrakenD, but what if you wanted to go in a different direction and choose GraphQL…

Ansible is a server orchestration tool that you can also use to perform workflows on remote machines in a predictable and repeatable way. In a previous post, “Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible”, I’ve lined out how you can deploy an application using your GitHub username and a user token using…

If you’ve been working on the performance of your websites for a while and haven’t tried service workers yet, keep reading. A Service Worker is a script that runs in your browser which helps to optimize asset loading on your website, even allowing the caching of assets in the browser…

As you might have read in earlier posts, my blog is built using Laravel and my own CMS Aloia CMS. This CMS is as flexible as I’d like it to be and I can make changes by extending behavior in PHP. I’ve migrated everything to Aloia CMS last year, as…

We all know that we should use properly sized images instead of using full-size images and making them smaller with HTML or CSS. Full-size images are larger in size, sometimes megabytes instead of a few kilobytes. When you’re loading a page, this makes the load times take much longer, because…

Running tasks in Ansible can be done in different ways and this can be very confusing for those starting out with automation and server orchestration. In this post, I’ll explain the difference and why you should use one or the other for certain situations. …

If you, like me, have been deploying changes manually to any of your websites consistently for months, if not years, you know that this is a repetitive task. Usually, you pull your changes from your version control system (VCS), run a few tasks to install production dependencies and/or compile them…

Command Line Interface (CLI) applications can automate your work in many ways. They can be used to build your applications, deploy code, run processes, and do all kinds of other miscellaneous tasks. Developers often favor CLI tools because they don’t require a user interface, often have consistent behavior in different…

Structured data is a way to normalize your data and Google uses it to understand better what your website and specific pages are about. This is where you can help Google by providing this kind of information on your website. In turn, Google can use this to improve the appearance…