Propser Otemuyiwa has a quick new post to his site showing you how to make a micro-service with Lumen, the recently introduced microframework from the creators of Laravel.

I introduced Lumen to you all in my previous post. Today we’ll be creating a simple microservice with Lumen. [...] So, the idea is to build a microservice that showcases your Developer Evangelist status based on the number of public repos you have on Github. The assumption here is that the more publicly available repos you have on github, the more you support the idea of Open source..giving back to the community.

He walks you through the full process:

• Creating the Lumen project
• Serving up the new application
• Enabling Eloquent and the .env handling
• Adding a single index route

He then fills in the route handling with a bit of code to pull from GitHub and get the number of public repositories a user has and assigns them a "rank" based on that.