Alejandro Celaya | Blog

Recently I have been testing one service and its clustering capabilities, in order to see if it fits in a project I'm working on. I decided the easiest way to do this was by creating a couple docker containers and setting up a cluster between them. It should be an easy task in theory. My first appro…

The day Zend Expressive 2 was released I was super excited. I have been using it a lot for both professional and personal projects, so I'm quite used to it. Since I've been using it in many projects, being able to update all of them to version 2 was a challenge, but I can say, I have succeeded :-) T…

It has been a long time since I first realized that handling file uploads in non-POST requests (like PUT) wasn't an easy task. One could assume the $_FILES array should be populated regardless the HTTP verb, but actually, PHP doesn't do it on its own. After a long time wanting to find a solution to …

Docker is, without any doubt, the trending tool these days. Everybody wants to use it, because it is very useful, allowing to easily generate development environments for any kind of application. A couple months ago I started working with docker myself (it has taken me a while, I know), and now I ca…

Let's Encrypt is the latest internet trending. Its a relatively young Certification Authority which intends to provide free and automated SSL certificates so that everybody can set encryption to their sites and applications. It is a Linux Foundation project sponsored by most of the biggest Internet …