STUART HERBERT - BEYOND PSR-7: DESIGN YOUR OWN MIDDLEWARE USING THE INSTRUCTION BUS
PSR-7 Middleware gives us a standard for writing modules that deal with HTTP requests. Using something like Slim or Zend Expressive, you can quickly and easily chain these modules together to save you time and effort. That’s all well and good, but what happens when you’re not working with HTTP requests? What if you’re working with message queues? Or data going to and from a database? Or pretty much anything that isn’t a HTTP request?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could take the concept of building pluggable pipelines, and apply it to any kind of situation that we have?
In this talk, Stuart will introduce you to the Instruction Bus - what it is, how to install it, and how to use it to create the pipelines that you need for your application. He’ll show you how to make it type-safe (a long-standing criticism of PSR-7), and how to go about testing and debugging code that runs inside these pipelines. By the end of the talk, you’ll have a worked example that you can download and start using straight away: an open-source library that encrypts and signs messages for messaging systems such as Amazon SQS.