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Practical guide to PHP 8.5 containerization

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  • 7 mins read

Containerization for PHP 8.5 gives a simple, predictable and practical way to run applications without worrying about what the host machine has installed. A container bundles PHP, extensions and all required tools in one place. This helps teams keep things clean, reproducible and easy to work with. The idea is straightforward: you build an image, start containers from it and share the image when needed. PHP 8.5 brings performance improvements and a smoother developer experience, so pairing it with Docker is a natural step for modern projects.

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Soil moisture sensor with Arduino

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  • 9 mins read

Soil moisture modules are a simple and friendly way to check how wet your soil is using a pair of probes and a small control board. They offer two outputs you can use with Arduino: an analog signal that changes depending on how wet the soil is, and a digital signal that flips on or off when the moisture crosses a level you set with the onboard potentiometer. The whole setup is compact, cheap and very popular for plant care projects, garden automation and basic hobby experiments.

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Engineering Management V: Connecting the dots

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Every engineering manager starts with the same instinct: to solve problems. It is what made you good as an engineer, and what first earned you trust as a leader. But as your scope grows, the definition of what it means to solve problems must change. Your role is no longer to fix issues directly, but to ensure the team can fix them without you.

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