Lately, I've been studying design patterns and architectural approaches, and I'm gradually starting to notice that many things I've been using in Laravel for years actually have specific names.

One of these patterns is  Active Record.

Lately, I've been spending quite a lot of time learning about design patterns and software architecture.

And the deeper I go, the more often I come across two concepts that seem to be behind almost everything: coupling and cohesion.

They may sound abstract at first, but they actually describe two very practical things:

How strongly are different parts of the system dependent on each other, and how well do the responsibilities inside a component belong together?

For the last several years, MySQL has been my primary database.

PostgreSQL came up from time to time, but I never had a real reason to dive deeply into it.

That changed when I started working on a new project — an AI assistant. The project required PostgreSQL, JSONB, Full-Text Search, and, most importantly, pgvector for vector search.

After spending some time working with PostgreSQL more seriously, I realized that it is not just “another SQL database that is more or less like MySQL”.

Recently, I started learning Python a bit. It is a very popular programming language today, ranking among the top three most popular languages both in terms of the number of questions on various websites like Stack Overflow and the number of repositories on GitHub.

I became interested in the topic of telegram bots.
Wrote my first telegram bot using PHP, Laravel and Telegram Bot SDK