2019-12-23 by Mirko Benedetti - 0 comments

Laravel Rest API, the easy introduction Tutorial

This article follows another one talking about a Symfony Rest API, which we made to exemplify the concept of RESTful applications.

This is the turn of Laravel, in that we are already able to write a PHP API in a simple way, but we still don’t know how easy it is with this other framework. So let’s get started.

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Hi there. My name is Mirko Benedetti, I’m a Software Developer and I founded Benedict Engineers. Excellence is what I consider to be our ultimate goal, and passion for technology constantly drives me to it. I began programming self-taught at a very young age. Since then I learned a lot, and every day I enjoy learning new things. Here is my Linkedin Curriculum, feel free to connect.

2019-10-10 by Mirko Benedetti - 6 Comments

Quick RESTful API with Node.js Express and DocumentDB

In this episode we’ll be continuing our journey through Node.js, looking at a simple and minimal RESTful API example with the help of Express to build it, and DocumentDB for our persistence.

If you haven’t done before, take a look at this tutorial which is conceptually similar, except for the fact that persistence this time is based on a MongoDB engine, hosted on AWS, and it’s called DocumentDB.

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2019-08-17 by Mirko Benedetti - 6 Comments

Easy RESTful API with Node.js Express and MySQL

One of the modern paradigms of Software Development is the use of RESTful APIs which can simplify and make life a lot easier for engineers when it comes to building APIs and webservices.

This tutorial is far from explaining you all the details about REST and Microservices, nonetheless it can give you good guidance for the beginning of your learning of these technologies.

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2019-06-17 by Mirko Benedetti - 10 Comments

Symfony 4: a CRUD tutorial, second edition

This tutorial follows another guide that I made, always about Symfony, but this time we’re talking about Symfony 4.

As the framework evolves into new releases there might be some changes in methods, classes and tools. They may become deprecated or obsolete and new tools may be added, although some kind of retrocompatibility may be assured.

If you want to know more about that, you can visit Symfony’s roadmap and discover how it will evolve and how long the various versions will be maintained.

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2019-02-10 by Mirko Benedetti - 12 Comments

Full LAMP Docker and AWS Introduction Tutorial

During this short exercise you will learn how to create a simple LAMP example application and deploy it using Docker on the Amazon Web Services ECS platform, with the help of RDS for a MySQL database.

All the following example is based on the AWS CLI, though we could have done faster and easier using the web based console. Instead, having gained a skill with the terminal interface, allows us to better understand how each step and parameter is working. In addition we will be able to create our own automation scripts based on the CLI.

The prerequites for this tutorial are the installation of the AWS CLI and the ECS CLI. If you haven’t them installed on your system, please refer to these links on how to do it: install the AWS CLI and the ECS CLI.

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2018-12-27 by Mirko Benedetti - 6 Comments

One minute Laravel and Docker Tutorial

In this short lesson we’re gonna focus on two topics we tackled some time ago in this mini series of tutorials: Laravel and Docker.

In the getting started section of the Laravel project’s documentation we can see that a vagrant box named Homestead is strongly adviced to begin with a quick and smooth developing experience.

Homestead is pre-packed with all the stuff necessary to begin the development of a Laravel application, but when it comes to deploying any application, Docker has many strong points that other virtual environments have not. In many cases it is a must: see this article of mine for further details.

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2018-08-19 by Mirko Benedetti - 6 Comments

Step by step Tutorial on a Rails CRUD web application

In the last two episodes we saw how to create a simple web application using either Symfony or Laravel. Let’s do the same with Ruby on Rails. In this tutorial we’re gonna combine also another competence we developed in this series of tutorials: Docker.

Fist step, install Docker following this quick guide on the official website: https://docs.docker.com/install. It might be useful (if not necessary) a post installation for Docker, follow these instructions and everthing will work out: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/linux-postinstall.

The next thing, install Docker Compose for the purpose of completing correctly this tutorial, you will find why as you go along with this reading: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install.

Now that you have all up and running, all you have to do is to create a Ruby on Rails stack on your computer. Let’s start by creating a Docker file, so create a directory named rails_tutorial and put the following content on a file called Dockerfile (without any extension):

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2018-06-22 by Mirko Benedetti - 11 Comments

Quick Laravel Tutorial on CRUD operations

In the last episode we saw how to create a simple web app with the use of Symfony, now we’re going to do the same thing, but this time we’re gonna do it with Laravel.

Let’s begin with the installation, if you need more informations please refer to the Laravel documentation, type these commands on your shell:

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