HAProxy as a load balancer in front of two web servers
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HAProxy ends TLS and spreads visitors across two web servers. The configuration, why it says leastconn rather than roundrobin, and how to update a server without anyone noticing.
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Reusable ideas, independently built.
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PHP REST client generator for OpenAPI
FreeWhat it does
Hand over an OpenAPI specification and get a finished PHP Composer package back: typed models, a client, the operations and the authentication.
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Why it is built this way
An API rarely keeps exactly to its own description. The blog post says what that means for the generated code, and why it is strictly typed all the same.
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API spec checker for OpenAPI
FreeFrom the blog
spatie/laravel-data: validating request input with data objects
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With spatie/laravel-data one class describes what an endpoint accepts. Validation, error messages and types follow from it. With an example and the places that trip you up.
Generating a PHP client from OpenAPI – when the API does not keep to its description
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An OpenAPI description says what an API should do. The API often does something else. What that means for a generated PHP client, and how Lax, Strict and Option deal with it.
Who builds this
I am Dominic, a computer science graduate and a full-stack developer since 2007. What I built before this, why the site looks the way it does, and what I am open to.
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