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After spending quite a few years working with services, and, more recently, API gateways, I've become intimately familiar with the desire to add layers and layers of middleware. When a service is initially designed it focuses only on pure functionality - each endpoint offering a unique business…
A few months ago I started building a Swagger resolver library, with the intention of having a parser that understood different inheritance properties of the spec. About halfway through I realized that this library was going to be huge, with dozens of objects, and that it wasn't going to work the…
Middleware is a powerful concept that modern frameworks use to bridge between separate parts of a stack - namely, a HTTP layer and application. A request comes in, is validated/manipulated by middleware, triggers behavior in the application, and then the response goes back out through the same…
Guzzle is a wildly popular PHP client that makes it simple to perform HTTP requests. The latest version, Guzzle v6, implements PSR-7 standards when handling requests and responses. By enforcing this standard HTTP messaging protocol it is now easier to have inter operable exchanges between packages,…