117 | phpMyAdmin or Adminer? What if you have PostgreSQL? 🐘 A simple guide to choosing a database tool

2025-10-08

Congratulations! You just set up your web server (LAMP, LEMP, or something else) and are ready to build awesome websites. You have an operating system, a web server, a programming language, but one important puzzle piece remains — the database. Managing it without a convenient tool is like fixing a car without a wrench. 😅

If you use MySQL or MariaDB, you’ve probably heard of phpMyAdmin and Adminer. If you chose PostgreSQL, you also have great options! Let’s figure out which tool to choose so working with your database is easy and pleasant.

116 | LAMP or LEMP? Exploring web stacks and discovering a cool hybrid approach!

2025-10-07

Hello, aspiring web developer! 👋
If you’re just diving into the world of building websites, you’ve probably already heard of LAMP and LEMP. These acronyms sound like something out of a spy movie, but in reality they are the foundation of most dynamic websites you use every day.

In this article we’ll break down what LAMP and LEMP are, how they differ, where they’re used, and introduce a cool hybrid stack — the Nginx and Apache combo that brings together the best of both worlds.
Ready? Let’s go! 🚀

104 | Real-Time Revolution: Diving into the World of WebSockets and Long Polling

2025-09-12

Introduction

Modern users expect web applications to work as fast and responsive as native software. Chats, stock quotes, collaborative document editing — all these scenarios require instant data exchange. In this article, we’ll break down how Long Polling works, why it was replaced by WebSockets, and how to properly configure these technologies on popular web servers.

The Real-Time Problem and the First Solution: Long Polling

HTTP was originally designed for the request-response model: the client contacts the server, the server replies, and the connection closes. For dynamic applications, this is inconvenient.