Phil Sturgeon

Recently I wrote GraphQL vs REST: Overview, giving a hype-free outline of the differences between REST and GraphQL. One section that would…

A few months back I wrote a comparison between RPC and REST for Smashing Magazine, and now I want to talk about the differences between REST…

Ignoring one session covering basic CRUD and deserialization using ActiveModel::Serializer, we get to a more interesting session: Handling…

Now that we’ve started building a very basic API, we should make sure that the documentation is kept up to date with our progress. Even…

Third video in a pile of LiveCoding.tv videos, shows how to use ActiveModel Serializer to shape the output of your resources. I totally…

The second video in a pile of LiveCoding.tv videos shows how to use your API Blueprint documentation to mock APIs, and a few different ways…

Two years ago I finished the first edition of Build APIs You Won’t Hate, and since then I’ve worked on bigger and better projects, using my…

Sidekiq is great. It’s a really handy way to take slow stuff that your application is doing like uploading images or sending emails, and get…

Code of Conducts are, for some reason, hated by a substantial portion of the tech community. For some people I think this comes down to the idea that they are silly and shouldn't be required. I entirely agree with the portion "they should not be required" and have made fun of them myself plenty when they started popping up at conferences a few years ago. Sadly, there is a reason we need warnings like "These peanuts may contain nuts" or "Hot coffee is hot". Some people are muppets, and don't know what being "not nice" is. Some people know, and don't care.

This is part two of a blog series, about why the PHP community is having a rough time talking about diversity related issues (like code of…