Handling large data with cron jobs and queue workers

One problem a lot of developers seem to come into, from reading their code, is when they try to handle large sets of data with background scripts. There are a few common mistakes that I have seen from inheriting the code of my predecessors, and I thought I would offer some solutions to the problems …

Using MySQL to return complex tagged results

Hi everyone In this article I thought I would tackle complex tag searching, using MySQL. There are lots of ways this can be achieved at a PHP level, through looping and checking/comparing. However, if you are working with a large dataset, and tagging is a required piece of functionality, for example in an enterprise blog, …