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Zoneless Angular Migration: Why Your View Stops Updating (And How to Fix It)

  You have finally taken the plunge. You removed   zone.js   from your polyfills, updated your   angular.json , and added   provideExperimentalZonelessChangeDetection()   to your application config. The bundle size dropped significantly, and the startup time improved. But now, specific parts of your application feel "stuck." A loading spinner never disappears even after the data arrives. A notification triggered by  setTimeout  never renders. Third-party libraries that previously integrated seamlessly now fail to update the DOM. This is the most common hurdle in migrating to Zoneless Angular. Here is exactly why the framework stopped watching your code, and the architectural patterns required to fix it. The Root Cause: The End of Monkey-Patching To understand why your view is stale, you must understand how Angular worked for the last decade. Traditionally,  Zone.js  acted as a global interceptor. It "monkey-patched" standard browser APIs...

Debugging 'PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted' Correctly

  Every backend developer eventually encounters the dreaded "White Screen of Death" or a crashed background worker with a specific log entry: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) The immediate reaction is almost always the same: open  php.ini  or the specific script and crank up the  memory_limit . While changing the limit from  128M  to  512M  (or worse,  -1 ) solves the immediate crash, it is rarely the correct engineering solution. Increasing the memory limit without understanding the root cause is technical debt. It turns an O(1) memory operation into an O(n) operation that will inevitably crash again as your dataset grows. This guide explores why PHP runs out of memory, why arrays are expensive, and how to rewrite data-heavy processes using Generators and Streams to keep memory usage flat, regardless of input size. The Root Cause: Why PHP Eats RAM To fix memory exhaustion, you ...