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oliver, 6 days ago

@bobmagicii it's all good until you figure out that a rather important table has just run out of room for a PK that's signed int, which is also referenced from similar-sized tables via FKs 😶

oliver, 5 days ago

@bobmagicii Yes, I saw it's a bigint, you've done all your could. Wish it's been the same in my case. Instead, we had a war room set up and eventually worked around the problem in a rather disgusting way, but when the prod can't even be placed in a proper maintenance mode, then you grab whatever straw you can hang on to.

oliver, 5 days ago

@bobmagicii well yeah, that's dangerously similar 🤷🏼‍♂️

Our live table hit the unsigned int max. But, now we have 2 archives 😄 ...because the original one was so big that it'd take a couple of days or weeks (nobody knows for sure) to upgrade.

oliver, 10 days ago

A minute of silence for the fallen brother, please

oliver, 10 days ago

@itsjoshbruce middleware user here, on the most recent project. I can't say I'm particularly proud of it, but it does the job so far

oliver, 10 days ago

@itsjoshbruce it's the request (route or route group middleware). Authenticated user is set early to the container and then various areas are protected based on the user's roles. Of course, there are more detailed checks later in the flow (e.g. parts of the interface are hidden or different depending on role/permissions). Middleware is stopping the unintended actions, like playing with URLs to access what's not supposed to be seen or actioned on.

oliver, 19 days ago

@thgs it is a side project that will be maintained by me for the foreseeable future. It has some commercial potential I hope, but if it starts growing fruits then I will make sure to bring someone in who will have enough experience and no fear to dive in, regardless of the libraries used. The goal is to start minimal.

Looks like some dbal + data mapper is the way to go, the latter probably something custom.

oliver, 19 days ago

@zimzat yeah, on the surface level things seem to be attractive, but as you go further and deeper, facepalms emerge. Some dbal & a custom data mapper will probably be the start.

I use Doctrine on my day-to-day work, and have used Eloquent before. Eloquent I liked up to some point, but can't say that for Doctrine. I wish I had more time to build something like Eloquent but with less magic and bloat (simple to use but not trying to do everything imaginable)

oliver, 28 days ago

@maxalmonte14 they either have no idea what they're doing, or have a very good idea*

• by not using a framework I don't mean not using any components that may be a part of one. just not a full-blown "off the shelf" framework.

oliver, 28 days ago

@sirber come on, there's a price for every kind of work 🙃