This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Around 2016, I was working as a PHP developer at Racing Post in London. The Post is best known for horse-racing news, form and results, but behind the public-facing products sat a large collection of systems for processing all kinds of racing and greyhound data. The application I worked on used that data to produce periodic reports. This was the PHP 5 era. The language had already powered serious web app...