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Understanding Laravel middleware : admin users

In Laravel, a Middleware is basically a piece of code that should be executed for every http request. Middlewares are typically used to:

Dec 10, 2019 | 1234 views

Apache Spark MapReduce with PHP

When it comes to Big Data processing, I'm a huge fan of the Apache Spark project. Spark is a very powerful tool to analyse very large datasets in parallel, and at the same time it provides a nice API that allows to write clean distributed code.

Aug 19, 2019 | 2226 views

An introduction to Laravel ORM : Eloquent

When working with an object oriented language, like PHP, Java or Python, an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool allows to automatically convert model objects into rows in a database and vice-versa. It allows to easily save objects in a database, without worrying about writing appropriate SQL requests.

Sep 11, 2018 | 1837 views

Using Laravel with a SQLite database

For a development environment or for small web applications, a SQLite database may be perfectly sufficient to store your data. It is also much lighter than a full blown MySQL database.

Sep 2, 2018 | 7213 views