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Integration testing our Laravel package with a real server and queue

Integration testing our Laravel package with a real server and queue

The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built helpers to assert traces, errors, and async job behavior. Read more

Freek Van der Herten
Not so locked in any more

Not so locked in any more

This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technology company with a pair of legacy/legendary iPhone and Android apps. They told me they had just completed a coding-agent driven rewrite of both apps to React Native. I asked why they chose that, given that coding agents presumably drive down the cost of maintaining separate iPhone and Android apps.…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto

Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto

[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting! — Mitchell Hashimoto, on Bun porting from Zig to Rust Tags: zig, ai, mitchell-hashimoto, llms, rust,…

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