Jake W. R. Foster

Category: Technology

  • Elasticsearch Slow Query Logging on Elastic Cloud

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    I have been doing a lot of work with Elasticsearch and WordPress lately and one of the common challenges that I’ve faced is setting up logging for queries that might take longer than expected. Luckily, Elastic Cloud makes this quite simple.

  • Xdebug will make you a better PHP developer

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    There are two epochs in my life as a PHP developer: pre-Xdebug and post-Xdebug. Before I actually used Xdebug, I relied on var_dump() and my wit alone to navigate through my troubleshooting and debugging processes. I thought that Xdebug merely provided a fancy display for var_dump()‘d code… and who needs that? Needless to say, Xdebug…