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Today marks ReactPHP’s 11th birthday. 🎉 To celebrate this special day together with all of you, we are thrilled to announce the release of the highly anticipated v3.0.0 of our Promise component. This major version has been in the works since 2016 and marks the starting point for a bigger,…
Read moreToday marks ReactPHP’s 10th birthday. 🎉 To celebrate, we’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of our all-new Async component using fibers in PHP 8.1+. By taking advantage of fibers, we’re making a big step forward for the future of async PHP and bringing new APIs that allow us to…
Read moreAnother year has passed, so it’s time for our year in review! Let's take a look at the major achievement we've made with an entirely new Framework X, preparing ReactPHP for fibers and more. Happy new year to everybody and let’s dive right in for some of our highlights from…
Read moreToday marks ReactPHP's 9th birthday. 🎉 And with today's release of the new default loop, using ReactPHP has never been easier! Let's celebrate with a big birthday party to ensure you will also get a big piece of the birthday cake to taste. 🍰 We're releasing a new version…
Read moreIt looks like PHP will get fibers soon with PHP 8.1! That’s awesome! Or is it? What are fibers? I think the Ruby documentation does a good job at describing what fibers are: Fibers are primitives for implementing light weight cooperative concurrency [in Ruby].…
Read moreIt's the turn of the year, so it's time for our year in review. An enormous amount has happened, in almost every aspect. We, clue·engineering, have expanded our team and with JustKanban and clue·access we have two awesome main-projects on the road to sustainable open-source. Oh.. of course you also…
Read moreToday, we are happy to introduce you to clue·access, our new exclusive early access for GitHub sponsors. 🎉 You get the best out of our projects – we get sponsors to help us focus on creating awesome projects. Here you will find why we designed this concept, what it looks…
Read moreThe turn of the year provides an appropriate opportunity to introduce the youngster of clue·engineering - me! I am the third head in our team and have been working together with Christian and Dennis for half a year now. Therefore, I would like to tell you something about me, the…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the v2.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-soap, the simple, async SOAP web service client library, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 The common opinion is that SOAP might be out of fashion. We'll show that's not necessarily true and try to help make SOAP the trend again.…
Read moreExactly eight years ago, 11th July 2012, the very first v0.1.0 release of ReactPHP was tagged. Today, the time has come again - It's ReactPHP's birthday. 🎉 This will be celebrated with a big birthday party and a new react/http v1.0.0 component release to ensure you will also get…
Read moreToday, clue/reactphp-zlib leaves the beta and appears in its first stable release v1.0.0. It provides a streaming zlib compressor and decompressor for ReactPHP, supporting compression and decompression of GZIP, ZLIB and raw DEFLATE formats. The beta is done - release! The project has been started almost 5 years…
Read moreAfter several weeks of working together, it is time to introduce myself, Dennis. You may have seen our recent Open-Source Sustainability Report and may know why funding open-source development is important. One reason: clue·engineering is no longer a one-man show and Christian now has a co-pilot on the PHP journey.…
Read moreI am happy to inform you that version 1.1 of clue/graph-composer is now available. Over time I have received plenty of requests, suggestions for improvement and feedback on this project, so I would like to respond to this great interest with an updated version. This example illustration…
Read moreToday, we're very happy to announce the immediate availability of the next v1.4.0 feature release of reactphp/socket, the async, streaming plaintext TCP/IP and secure TLS socket server and client for ReactPHP. 🎉 As the main feature of this release, this library now has support for IPv6 out of the…
Read moreAs announced in my previous blog post, I would like to use this post to clearly explain the aspect of sustainability for my open-source projects. First, I would like to demonstrate this with a small calculation example. Over the course of the last year, I have invested about 500…
Read moreWith a little delay, you also receive some happy new year greetings from me! Now that I have worked through the polite phrase, I would like to review the year 2019 and see what's been going on the last 12 months. First, I would like to dedicate a few…
Read moreChristmas is nigh! For many software developers, this means taking some time off from work, planning to spend some time with family and beloved ones, finally getting home and then… doing even more work! Wait a moment!? If you, like many regular software developers, have a nine-to-five job, this…
Read moreLast week, I've released v1.1.0 of clue/phar-composer: it allows simple phar (php archive) creation for every PHP project managed via Composer. It takes any PHP project as input and turns its project directory and all its vendor files into a single Phar file which allows easy distribution. This is particularly…
Read moreThis week, I'm happy to announce the first stable v1.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-ami, the streaming, event-driven access to the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI), built on top of ReactPHP 🎉 Once again, don't be fooled by the version number: Its release history suggests this is not exactly a new project.…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the first stable v1.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-docker, the async client library for event-driven access to the Docker Engine API, built on top of ReactPHP 🎉 Once again, don't be fooled by the version number: Its release history suggests this is not exactly a new…
Read moreAs of today, this website is now built using Sculpin as a static site generator. Most notably, this means that all blog posts should load much faster now that they have been imported from external Gists into static files. All existing page links have been migrated as is and should…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the stable v2.3.0 release of clue/reactphp-stdio, the event-driven and UTF-8 aware console input & output (STDIN, STDOUT) library for truly interactive CLI applications, built on top of ReactPHP 🎉 Once again, the version number and its release history suggests this is not exactly a…
Read moreAs of today, https://clue.engineering is the new domain for this site. This includes all past and upcoming blog posts, articles, project information, downloads etc. All links to the legacy domain (lueck.tv) should automatically redirect to the updated location, so all incoming links should continue to function as usual. I've…
Read moreExactly seven years ago, 11th July 2012, the very first v0.1.0 release of ReactPHP was tagged. On last year's anniversary we took the chance to releases the first set of stable components for ReactPHP's main components. Today, we're thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the very first stable v1.0.0…
Read moreToday, we're very happy to announce the immediate availability of the next major beta release of reactphp/cache, the async cache library for ReactPHP. 🎉 ReactPHP ❤️ PSRs As the main feature of this v0.6.0 release, this library now provides an updated CacheInterface that provides all the common methods…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the very first stable v1.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-sqlite, the async SQLite database for ReactPHP 🎉 Now that v1.0.0 has been tagged and released today, let's take a look at how we can use an async SQLite database in a non-blocking PHP application, how it…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the v2.3.0 release of clue/reactphp-redis, the async Redis database client built on top of ReactPHP 🎉 Once again, the version number and its release history suggests this is not exactly a new project. In fact, this has been used in production in a larger…
Read moreToday, we're very happy to announce the immediate availability of the next major beta release of reactphp/child-process, the event-driven library for executing child processes with ReactPHP. 🎉 ReactPHP ❤️ Windows As the main feature of this v0.6.0 release, this library now has limited Windows support and supports passing…
Read moreToday, we're very happy to announce the immediate availability of the next v1.2.0 feature release of reactphp/socket, the async, streaming plaintext TCP/IP and secure TLS socket server and client for ReactPHP. 🎉 As the main feature of this release, this library now has improved support for secure TLS 1.3…
Read moreWithout further ado, let me start with saying: <?php echo 'Happy New Year! 🎉'; Now with a fresh start, let's take a moment to review some of my highlights of the past year. In 2018… I've started my first blog and published a total…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the very first stable v1.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-ssh-proxy, the async SSH proxy connector and forwarder, tunnel any TCP/IP-based protocol through an SSH server, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v1.0.0 has been tagged and released today, let's take a look at how…
Read moreToday, we're very happy to announce the immediate availability of the next major beta release of friends-of-reactphp/mysql, the async MySQL database client for ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v0.5.0 has been tagged and released today, let's look into why we believe the new API provides significant new features that warrant…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the v1.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-socks, the async SOCKS proxy connector client and server implementation, tunnel any TCP/IP-based protocol through a SOCKS5 or SOCKS4(a) proxy server, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 Don't be fooled by the version number: Its release history suggests this is…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the v1.0.0 release of clue/reactphp-soap, the simple, async SOAP web service client library, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 To answer the first thing you may be wondering: Yes, it is 2018 and indeed, this project has been used in production in a number…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the v1.4.0 release of clue/reactphp-http-proxy, the async HTTP proxy connector, use any TCP/IP-based protocol through an HTTP CONNECT proxy server, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 Once again, the version number and its release history suggests this is not exactly a new project. In…
Read moreToday, I'm happy to announce the v2.5.0 release of clue/reactphp-buzz, the simple, async PSR-7 HTTP client for concurrently processing any number of HTTP requests, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 As the version number suggests, this is not exactly a new project. In fact, this has been used in…
Read moreToday, we're very happy to announce the immediate availability of the next major beta release of friends-of-reactphp/mysql, the async MySQL database client for ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v0.4.0 has been tagged and released today, let's look into why I think this is not only a major milestone for this…
Read moreI'm happy to announce the very first stable release of clue/reactphp-csv, the streaming CSV (Comma-Separated Values or Character-Separated Values) parser and encoder for ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v1.0.0 has been tagged and released today, let's look into what CSV is, how it compares to other formats such as NDJSON…
Read moreExactly six years ago, 11th July 2012, the very first v0.1.0 release of ReactPHP was tagged. Today, six years later, we're thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the very first stable v1.0.0 release of ReactPHP's main components: react/event-loop v1.0.0 react/stream v1.0.0 react/socket v1.0.0 Happy birthday…
Read moreI'm happy to announce the very first stable release of clue/reactphp-flux, the lightweight stream processor to concurrently do many (but not too many) things at once, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v1.0.0 has been tagged and released today, let's look into why streaming processing is useful,…
Read moreI'm happy to announce the very first stable release of clue/reactphp-ndjson, the streaming newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON) parser and encoder for ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v1.0.0 has been tagged and released today, let's look into what NDJSON is, how it compares to other formats such as JSON, CSV etc. and…
Read moreI'm happy to announce the very first stable release of clue/reactphp-mq, the lightweight in-memory message queue to concurrently do many (but not too many) things at once, built on top of ReactPHP. 🎉 Now that v1.0.0 has been tagged and released today, let's look into why this is useful,…
Read more"Pushing the limits with ReactPHP – why ReactPHP is awesome and why you should care" has by now become what one could consider my signature talk. In this post I'm trying to give a short overview what this talk is all about, why I think this is a very…
Read moreWithout further ado, let me start with saying: <?php echo 'Hello World!'; Yes, it's about time! Over the course of the last year or two I've been asked a number of times to share some background info about some of the projects I'm working on…
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